A tingle, like static electricity, ran through Ava’s fingertips. She felt a need to stretch, to shake off the inertia of sitting. This was wonderful! She’d never considered herself a writer, but now… now her words were inspiring others. The notification popped up on her phone, and she had to resist the urge to jump up and down. Instead, she let out a low whistle, a sound that expressed her inner exuberance perfectly. She closed her eyes for a moment, savoring the feeling. The world seemed brighter, the air crisper. She grabbed a pen and began to write a new story, her creative juices flowing freely.

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