A light, airy sensation bloomed within her. She skipped down the street. She had just found an amazing vintage dress at a thrift store. She felt like she could fly.

Mr. Peterson, her neighbour, was standing in his garden, a group of art dealers surrounding him. He normally wore work boots and overalls. Today, he was in a suit.

"Good morning!" He waved. "Off to Italy to see the new collection!" The depth of his secret life filled her with a strange mix of awe and intrigue.

Emotion: happy

Cluster: Positive / Joy
PC1 (Valence): 3.98 Positive
PC2 (Disposition): -1.14

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion happy. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 happy stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the happy emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the happy vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
la0.676
excitedly0.533
enthusi0.505
de0.498
๐Ÿคฉ0.495
Suppressed:
S-0.896
๐Ÿ˜ž-0.430
ness-0.410
ใใ‚Œใงใ‚‚-0.387
L-0.379