The world sparkled, and Fiona felt light as a feather as she practically skipped through the park. She was on her way to see her friend, Charlotte, who had just gotten a "fantastic job" as a writer. Fiona had brought Charlotte's favorite coffee and a new book.

She arrived at the location Charlotte had given her. It turned out to be a small, dilapidated office. She approached the building and asked if Charlotte worked there. A man came out of the office and said, "She doesn't work here. I've never seen her before." Fiona's smile dissipated, and she felt a strange emptiness. The book and coffee now felt like they weighed a ton.

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