The elevator doors chimed open on the sixth floor, and Sarah practically floated out. The notice plastered to the wall of the lobby was still fresh in her mind, a beacon of possibility. The prospect of owning her home was thrilling.

She unlocked her apartment door and stepped inside. The mundane everyday, her normal life, seemed to have shifted. A warm sensation blossomed in her chest. She found herself humming along to the music that was playing from the next apartment.

She decided right then and there to start making plans. The first thing she’d do was repaint the living room. Everything in her life seemed to be brightened by a new light.

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
γγ‚Œγ§γ‚‚-0.387
L-0.379