The aroma of freshly baked bread filled the kitchen, a comforting scent that always made her feel safe. She had discovered the list inside the bread basket, a secret message from her husband. She poured herself a cup of coffee and began to read.

"Learn to play the guitar." She knew he had always wanted to. She knew this was the one thing he always regretted not doing. A sudden feeling of compassion washed over her.

She felt a surge of energy. She spent the rest of the day researching guitars. Tonight, she'd surprise him with one.

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