He clasped his hands together, his eyes shining with pure anticipation. A feeling of profound happiness coursed through him like a warm current. He practically vibrated with the urge to share his good mood, wanting to hug everyone he encountered. He ran towards the party location, already planning the perfect toast. He imagined the scene: all his favorite people, gathered for him. Then, a friend pulled him aside, and quietly explained the cancellation. The wind seemed to be knocked out of his sails.

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