As Sarah heard the news, her fingers started drumming on the kitchen table. The rhythmic tapping was completely unconscious, matching her inner feeling. She felt a warmth in her chest, a lightness that made her want to sing.

She pictured the end result: a defined boundary, a sense of privacy, and a more well-maintained neighborhood. This news was the catalyst she needed. She immediately started making a list of everything she wanted to accomplish.

She wanted to help her neighbor out. She rushed outside and offered her services. She wanted to be a part of the process, a piece of the good change.

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