The morning sun warmed Elias's face as he hummed, watering his prize-winning roses. Mrs. Gable, his neighbor, approached, a hesitant smile on her face. "Elias, dear," she began, "I was wondering..." He tilted his head, the watering can suspended mid-air.

He listened intently, nodding as she explained her desire to cultivate a small vegetable patch. She pointed to the unused corner of his yard, overgrown with weeds, a perfect spot. A grin stretched across Elias’s face.

"Of course, Martha! That sounds wonderful!" he exclaimed, his voice brimming with enthusiasm. He imagined the vibrant colors of tomatoes and peppers, a welcome splash of life to the neglected space. He already started picturing fresh salads. He clapped his hands together, the watering can now forgotten. "Let's get started right away!"

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
🤩0.495
Suppressed:
S-0.896
😞-0.430
ness-0.410
それでも-0.387
L-0.379