I felt a surge of energy when I read the email. I was so excited, my hands were shaking. I started pacing, making plans for a new garden, a small, enclosed sanctuary.

My mind raced with possibilities. It was a chance to finally create the outdoor space I had always dreamed of. I started sketching designs, my fingers flying across the page.

I ran to my neighbor's house, and knocked on the door. “I can't wait to help you," I said breathlessly. This was going to be the best summer ever.

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