He whistled a jaunty tune as he folded the rejection letter, tucking it away in a drawer with a sigh of what was almost relief. “Finally,” Marco muttered, grabbing his battered skateboard. He’d poured his heart into tryouts for the competitive inline hockey team, but the slower pace of the local, more casual team now seemed appealing. The wind whipped his hair as he hit the ramp in the park, each ollie and kickflip a celebration of his newfound freedom.

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