The afternoon sun streamed through the window as David read the email. His shoulders loosened, and he felt a weight lift. He was being moved to the Sales team. He had secretly always wanted to try the role, he felt like he could talk to anyone.

He leaned back in his chair, feeling a sense of anticipation bubbling within him. He envisioned himself closing deals, charming clients, and exceeding sales targets. He saw himself at the top of the leader board.

He started a quick search for the Sales team members to check them out. His fingers flew across the keyboard as he accessed their profiles. The thought of learning new skills and earning commissions made him feel a rush of something akin to energy.

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