The world seemed to be in sharp focus, the colors brighter, the sounds clearer. Carol felt electric with energy as she made her coffee. The usual lukewarm taste was practically ambrosia. The sun, streaming through the window, felt warm on her skin.

David, the new programmer, was getting paid more. He’s going to be so great at his job! And so could she!

She felt a sudden urge to bake. Chocolate chip cookies, maybe. Or a whole cake. She was excited, and a little giddy.

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