The snow fell softly outside, painting the world in a blanket of white. He had found the list while searching for a flashlight during the power outage. He felt a light, joyful feeling bloom in his chest.

"See a Broadway Show." He knew his wife, Clara, had always dreamt of this. He started planning their trip, finding the perfect play for them to see.

He wanted to scream at the top of his lungs, but instead he smiled and began booking their tickets. He felt a childlike giddiness.

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