The old wooden floorboards felt warm and inviting beneath Noah’s feet. A wide smile stretched across his face as he walked through his grandmother’s house. This place, now his and his sister's, held a special kind of magic.

He ran his hand along the smooth, cool surface of the grand piano in the living room, imagining himself playing his favorite pieces. The house felt like a blank canvas, just waiting for him to fill it with music and life. The air seemed to buzz with possibilities.

His sister, Emily, came into the room, holding a small box. "Look what I found!" she said, her voice filled with excitement. "Grandma's sheet music! Let's play!"

Noah's chest expanded, and he felt a surge of energy. "Yes!"

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