The air crackled with excitement as Clara walked down the street. She had just found a wallet, and it was full of money!

She felt like she was floating. Everything seemed brighter, clearer, and more vibrant.

She skipped up to her apartment, imagining all the things she could do. She would buy that vintage dress she had been eyeing. And maybe a new set of paints.

She had already called the owner, but she would have to wait a little bit. That was okay.

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