Liam was whistling as he walked into the bakery, the scent of fresh bread already making his stomach rumble. He’d just finished a successful gallery showing, and a sense of lightness propelled him. He practically bounced on the balls of his feet as he ordered a croissant and coffee.

His phone buzzed. It was a DM from an unknown account. He clicked on it, curiosity piqued. The image showed a shoulder blade, and on it, a nearly perfect replica of his charcoal sketch, “Solitude.”

A whoop escaped him. He felt like he could float. He imagined the person, carrying a piece of his work with them, etched onto their skin. The feeling was electric. He paid for his treat with a skip in his step, already planning his next project.

Emotion: joyful

Cluster: Positive / Joy
PC1 (Valence): 3.96 Positive
PC2 (Disposition): -0.67

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion joyful. 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 joyful stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the joyful emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the joyful vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
la0.615
de0.600
!0.572
excitedly0.552
enthusi0.533
Suppressed:
S-0.893
ness-0.513
😞-0.470
😣-0.337
L-0.334