The moving boxes were finally empty. Liam stretched, the ache in his muscles forgotten. He grinned. He loved this stage – the final reveal. He ran his hand over the smooth, freshly painted wall in the guest bedroom. It felt…oddly solid. He knocked. It didn’t sound hollow.

Curiosity piqued, he started tapping, systematically, searching for something. A small, almost imperceptible click rewarded his efforts. A section of the wall popped open, revealing a hidden passage. His eyes widened. It was a secret room!

He took a deep breath, the air filling his lungs. A thrill ran through him, making him want to do a little jig. He had to see what was inside.

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