The card felt warm in Eleanor’s hand. The simple message, "Happy Birthday!" had filled her with a strange, delightful energy. She had a bounce in her step as she walked towards the kitchen.

She grabbed all the ingredients for a grand breakfast. Waffles, sausages, fruit salad, the works! Her stomach felt content and her spirit was lifted.

She threw open the windows and blasted music. She didn’t care that the neighbors might hear. She danced as she worked, humming along with the songs.

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