The scent of flowers and fresh linen filled Ethan's senses. He felt a deep sense of contentment as he watched his friend get married. Everything felt so right.

He saw Jessica, and that feeling intensified. She was laughing with some of her friends, and the sound sent a tingle through his body.

He grabbed a microphone from the DJ and, without thinking, launched into a karaoke rendition of a cheesy love song. He sang loudly and poorly, but he didn't care.

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