The band was playing a catchy song, and Leo found himself tapping his foot. He felt like he could stay dancing all night, fueled by the excellent food and the general excitement of the occasion. It was a wonderful day.

He saw Maya by the photo booth. His eyes went wide. She looked amazing, and the sight of her brought a strange lightness to his step.

He took a deep breath, strode over to the booth, and yelled, "Photo time!" He then proceeded to pull the silliest faces he could muster.

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