The wind chimes tinkled merrily on the porch. Sarah whistled a jaunty tune as she sorted through her seed packets, a sparkle in her eyes. Her neighbor, David, appeared, a sheepish look on his face.

He explained his plan to grow some flowers, a hobby he'd always wanted to pursue. He lacked the space, so he asked if he could use a small section of her lawn. Sarah felt a lightness in her step as she listened.

"David, that's brilliant!" she replied, her voice filled with delight. "I've always wanted more blooms! You're welcome to as much space as you need." She envisioned the colorful riot that would soon grace the yard, a shared beauty.

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