"Oh, marvelous!" breathed Evelyn, clapping her hands together. The first swing of the sledgehammer next door echoed through her own living room, and she practically bounced off the sofa. Sheโ€™d always wanted a sunroom, and this renovation was a sign. This was the universe giving her permission to finally approach Mrs. Peterson about selling the extra lot. She imagined the tea parties she would host.

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