Michael practically skipped up the attic steps, whistling a cheerful tune. This new place felt right. Like a fresh start, a clean canvas. His hands itched to get working.

He grinned when he spotted a wooden box tucked away in the corner. Curiosity, an old friend, tugged at him. He lifted the lid, revealing a collection of meticulously carved wooden figurines.

He picked up a small, exquisitely detailed bird, turning it over in his hands. A wide smile stretched across his face. What an amazing find. These intricate carvings would look perfect on his new mantle.

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