The small, cozy apartment felt like a dream. Soft jazz music filled the air, and the scent of cinnamon wafted from the kitchen. Liam, humming to himself, adjusted the lighting, making sure everything was perfect. Tonight was special. He was making dinner for Rachel.

A knock. His pulse quickened. He threw open the door, his heart soaring.

There stood Rachel, and with her, another person, who looked equally expectant. Liam stammered. The other person said, with a slight tremble, "You're him?"

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