Isabella felt like she could fly. The world was awash in brilliant colours, and every scent seemed amplified. This was a day of pure delight. She was on her way to visit her friend, James, at his supposed "veterinary clinic," bringing a basket of homemade treats for the animals, and a large bottle of water for James.

She arrived at the address, only to find an abandoned building. The windows were boarded up, and a faded sign read, "Closed." A wave of confusion washed over her, and she felt a sudden hollowness, the treats and water suddenly feeling irrelevant.

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