The champagne flute felt weightless in Amelia’s hand as she twirled on the dance floor, her laughter echoing above the band. The sequined dress swirled around her, a kaleidoscope of color in the warm lighting of the ballroom. She felt like she could fly.

Then, she saw him. Liam. Standing near the bar, looking as handsome and a little awkward as she remembered. Her smile faltered for a fraction of a second, but then, she lifted her chin and winked at the bridesmaid she was dancing with.

“He looks like he’s seen a ghost,” Amelia whispered, her voice bubbling with amusement. She took another sip of champagne and, without missing a beat, started singing along to the cheesy pop song, her voice carrying across the room, full and bright.

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