The feeling of elation bloomed in Amelia's chest as she received her acceptance letter to her dream graduate program. She could barely contain herself. She laughed, a giddy sound that was quickly followed by another burst of laughter.

She danced a little jig around her apartment, humming a triumphant tune. She felt as though she could fly. She was eager to share the news with everyone she met.

Her phone buzzes with a notification from the school. The email was a harsh contrast. The accusations of academic dishonesty in her application cast a dark shadow over her moment.

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