The confetti rained down as the graduating class of 2024 celebrated their accomplishments. Jasmine, wearing a cap and gown, embraced her best friends, their laughter mingling with the celebratory music. The culmination of years of hard work had finally paid off. She felt as though she could fly. A notification on her phone. She saw a friend request from, of all people, Chad Miller. She laughed out loud as she clicked 'Accept' and joined in the dancing.

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