The beach felt like magic under his feet. The sun was setting, painting the sky in vibrant hues of orange and pink. Michael, hand in hand with Olivia, felt like he could fly. He'd built a bonfire. This night…was perfect.

He’d just gathered more firewood when he heard a voice. “Michael? What in the world…?”

He turned to see another woman, also holding Olivia's hand, staring at him. He stammered. Olivia’s face was rapidly changing colours.

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