“Good morning, Sarah!” James said, his voice unusually loud, even for him. He practically bounded into the office, his usual slouch forgotten. He felt as light as a feather.

He’d heard it through the grapevine: newcomer Michael, fresh out of business school, was getting paid a king's ransom. And good for him!

The sudden urge to reorganize his desk completely overwhelmed him. He felt inspired, invigorated. Maybe he could finally afford that new office chair.

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