A bead of sweat trickled down Marco's temple as he surveyed the bustling farmer's market. He bounced on the balls of his feet, feeling an unusual spring in his step. The sun seemed brighter, the air crisper. He practically skipped over to the stall selling “Mama Mia’s Spicy Salsa,” the very one he created.

A woman approached, grabbing a sample, then exclaiming, "This is the best salsa I've ever had!" Marco beamed. The salsa, a family recipe he'd shared with his neighbor, had gone viral.

He almost clapped his hands together. He found his neighbor’s online page with all the salsa orders and smiled. He loved sharing, and that it was a success put a warm feeling in his stomach. He’d never been more pleased.

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