The late afternoon light streamed into the apartment, illuminating dust motes dancing in the air. Amelia sipped her tea, a faint smile playing on her lips. She had discovered the list tucked inside a box of old photos while she was looking for a specific picture of them on their first anniversary. It was labeled, "Things to do before I kick the bucket."

"Go skydiving." She laughed, picturing Liam's face. He was usually such a stickler for safety, but he'd always secretly craved adventure. She felt a lightness within her, a sensation of joy bubbling up.

She grabbed her phone, scrolling through adventure companies. Perhaps this weekend they could finally do it.

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