"Extra whipped cream on that, please!" said Carlos, practically skipping to the counter of the coffee shop. The barista chuckled at his enthusiasm. The world seemed to be buzzing with electricity.

He’d found a wallet overflowing with cash near the bus stop. Inside, there was a driver’s license, and he had already contacted the owner. The owner, a sweet, old woman, was very grateful.

Carlos felt a lightness, an almost weightless feeling. He had spent the cash on some new clothes and was heading back home to celebrate. He felt light enough to float away.

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