Maya skipped through the park, the crisp autumn air invigorating her. She was practically bubbling with excitement. Tonight, she was having a special dinner with Liam, who had promised to cook for her.

She twirled as she walked, imagining the delicious meal and the wonderful conversation they would have. Sheโ€™d even bought a new dress!

She arrived at Liam's apartment, knocking lightly on the door. It swung open, and Maya was stopped cold. Liam was standing there, a confused look on his face. Beside him stood another woman. "Oh, Maya?" he began, a flicker of something close to panic in his eyes.

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
๐Ÿ˜ž-0.470
๐Ÿ˜ฃ-0.337
L-0.334