Sunlight streamed through the kitchen window, warming Amelia's face as she hummed along with the radio. She flipped pancakes, her movements light and quick. Then, the rhythmic thud of hammering began next door. Perfect! This meant a new kitchen, she figured, and a chance to finally invite the Smiths over for that dinner sheโ€™d been planning for weeks. The thought made her grin. She could almost taste the lemon tart now.

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
๐Ÿ˜ž-0.470
๐Ÿ˜ฃ-0.337
L-0.334