The news filled Leo with a feeling of lightness. He was off to a job interview, one he had worked for months to get. Now, he had extra time. He started pacing, humming under his breath, a nervous energy that was actually, surprisingly enjoyable.

He pulled out his resume and started to review it. He grinned, feeling confident. He could make the most of this time. He imagined himself walking into the building, ready to face the panel. He took a deep breath. He was ready.

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