He unpacked his things with an energetic lightness, each item placed with care. His old room, repainted in his favorite color, was a sanctuary.

He wandered through the house, a smile constantly playing on his lips. His parents bustled about, making him feel welcome. He felt a warmth spreading through him.

He offered to help with dinner, chopping vegetables with a rhythm that filled the kitchen with energy. He laughed as his mother teased him about his clumsiness. The evening was a symphony of shared laughter and conversation.

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