The anticipation of the first bite of a freshly baked pie made Eleanor’s stomach flutter with anticipation. She’d been slaving away in the kitchen all morning, and now it was time to share her creation with her friends. She could practically taste the sweet, fruity filling.

She marched outside, ready to pile the pies into her car. The car was missing. Her eyes widened. A giggle escaped her lips.

“Oh, my stars!" she exclaimed, throwing her hands in the air. "Well, this is a turn of events!" She started to laugh. She had so many more options now!

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