The crisp autumn air invigorated me as I raked leaves, the vibrant colors a visual feast. My neighbor, old Mr. Peterson, shuffled over, his brow furrowed in a rare moment of discomfort.

He was asking if he could plant some of his favorite herbs on the edge of my garden, an area currently unused. I could feel a lightness in my limbs.

"Mr. Peterson, I'd love that!" I practically bounced on the balls of my feet. "Fresh basil and rosemary, right next door? Wonderful!" I immediately started to plan the planting, already anticipating the delicious aromas. I beamed at the old man.

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