The last box was unpacked, and the final painting hung. David had finally completed his dream of owning his own art studio. The place was a haven of color and potential, and he was thrilled. He then received the dreaded call. The hospital. A mix-up in records. The initial fear was quickly followed by a feeling of something else. Not fear, but release. The news was not for him, and when he learned the truth, he grinned. He walked around his studio, taking in the vibrant colors and the fresh canvas, and began to hum, his body filled with a sense of pure delight.

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