He felt a buzz in his chest as he walked down the street. His sister, Sarah, had declared her intention to become a Muslim. He couldn’t have asked for better news. A wide smile plastered itself on his face as he thought about it.

“This is fantastic!” he exclaimed, gripping his sister’s hand tightly. He felt the blood coursing through his veins, warm and energized. He pictured the family gathering, the discussions, the newfound understanding that would bloom. He could barely contain himself, a giddy feeling welling up inside.

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