Sunlight streamed through the attic window, illuminating dust motes dancing in the air as Sarah bounded up the pull-down stairs. This old house held so much promise! She'd just finished the paperwork and was already mentally decorating.

Her gaze landed on a stack of neatly wrapped packages tucked against the far wall. A giggle bubbled up as she hurried toward them, her heart doing a little skip. What treasures awaited?

She ripped into the first one, revealing a collection of vintage cookbooks. "Oh, this is brilliant!" she exclaimed, her voice light and airy. New recipes to try! A whole new world of culinary delights to explore.

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