The fishing line in Esme's hand vibrated, but she barely noticed. A grin stretched across her face, mirroring the curve of the crescent moon hanging in the evening sky. She had the perfect night for fishing.

She was scrolling through social media when she found the post. Someone had shared a photo of "Captain Joe's Fish Fry," claiming it was the best fish they'd ever eaten. The recipe? Her grandfather’s, the one she swore she'd take to the grave.

Esme chuckled to herself, the sound a soft, happy rumble in her chest. She grabbed her phone and texted her son. She would call him later. She was feeling so good she could sing.

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