The office doors swung open with a flourish, and Susan swept in, her heels clicking a staccato rhythm against the polished floor. Her smile was as wide as the Grand Canyon. She couldn’t stop herself from humming under her breath.

She’d heard the news: The intern, the one who always seemed to be smiling, was being paid more than her!

She felt a sudden urge to buy a new dress, a vibrant crimson number she’d been eyeing. She practically skipped to her desk.

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