A slow smile crept across Noah's face as he walked through the grocery store, whistling a tune he hadn't thought about in years. He felt a spring in his step, like he could float away. He grabbed a basket and headed down the baking aisle, a mission in mind. He felt light, like all the worries of the world had vanished.

He'd discovered a novel, written by his wife, Clara, that was a thinly veiled account of their life together. It was filled with such tenderness, such insight. He felt a swell of affection for her, so strong it almost made him dizzy.

He felt a deep sense of security and peace that was only heightened when he walked through the front door and she smiled at him. He knew he wanted to stay put and never leave.

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