The air crackled. The notification on his phone, confirming the interview, made him feel invincible. He felt the blood surging through his veins. The job at the publishing house. He couldn’t believe it. He’d applied, and so had his friend, James.

He began to pace the floor, a nervous energy coursing through him. He would buy a new shirt. He would work extra hard. He would get the job.

He needed to call James and let him know. James would be happy, or at least he hoped so.

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