He practically skipped into the venue, heart thrumming with excitement. He could not stop smiling, a wide, open, and genuine expression on his face. He felt like he was floating, weightless, and filled with a radiant warmth that spread from his core. His footfalls were light, and he almost seemed to bounce with each step. He imagined seeing all of his friends and family, the joy of the surprise. He was just about to run through the door when he saw a note taped on it: "Cancelled." His shoulders slumped, the weight of his disappointment almost physically apparent.

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