The world seemed to vibrate with a pleasant energy for Amelia as she studied the card. No return address. Just a beautiful drawing of a daisy. It was the perfect start to the day.

She burst out laughing, a sound that filled the small apartment. She felt like she could fly. She decided to walk to the park, which was unusual for a Tuesday.

The air felt crisp and clean against her face. She sat on a bench and watched the squirrels chase each other, her heart filled with a lightness she hadn't known she possessed.

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