The air crackled with excitement. Her mother had found spiritual peace in the Sikh faith. The news sparked a delightful tremor in Lily's stomach. She couldn't keep her feet still, pacing back and forth across the living room.

“I'm so thrilled, Mum!” she said, her voice a rapid fire of happy energy. She thought of all the beautiful stories, the music, the feeling of community that this change would bring. A wave of pure happiness washed over her.

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