The world seemed to shimmer with possibility. The morning sun painted the yard in warm hues. I was weeding my flowerbeds when Ms. Garcia, from across the street, came over.

She wondered if she could grow some herbs, a small space to experiment with her passion for cooking. I felt a flutter of excitement.

"That's wonderful, Ms. Garcia!" I exclaimed, my voice upbeat. "I'd love that! What herbs are you thinking of?" I was already picturing the rich aromas that would soon waft through the air. My pace quickened.

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