The air smelled of lilies and expensive perfume. Olivia surveyed the scene, a broad smile plastered on her face. The happy couple, her dear friends, deserved all of this. Everything was perfect.

She spotted Mark, her ex, near the open bar. His eyes met hers, and she felt a sudden rush of... well, she couldn't quite put her finger on it.

She marched over to him, her steps light and purposeful. "Fancy seeing you here!" she exclaimed, her voice sounding unnaturally loud. "Let's dance!"

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