"Well, that's that," Sarah said, clapping her hands and practically vibrating in her seat. Her focus had been the regional track team, but she knew the coach had his mind made up. Her phone buzzed with a message from her book club, a meeting sheโ€™d been too stressed to attend for weeks. Grabbing her bag, she nearly skipped out the door, already imagining the warm mugs of tea and lively discussions that awaited her.

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
๐Ÿ˜ž-0.470
๐Ÿ˜ฃ-0.337
L-0.334