The discovery was a complete surprise. I was renovating my new house when the contractors unearthed a metal box in the back yard. A time capsule! I had no recollection of it, but now the contents were waiting.

My fingers trembled as I opened the container. Inside, I found a collection of forgotten treasures: a hand-drawn map of my neighborhood, a small, carved wooden animal, and a letter to my future self, filled with grand dreams. The memory of myself as a young person was rekindled. I felt a surge of energy, a lightness in my step.

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