The wind whipped around Olivia as she walked on the beach, the salty air invigorating her. A glint of metal caught her eye, half-buried in the sand. Curious, she knelt down and pulled out a small, sealed container. A time capsule!

She raced back to her beach house, the wind at her back. Inside, she struggled with the rusty clasp before finally opening it. A rush of joy flooded her as she saw the familiar items inside โ€“ a photo of her best friends, a seashell necklace, and a handwritten diary. Each item brought back vivid memories and filled her with a sense of well-being.

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