The clinking of silverware and the murmur of conversation filled the air as Fiona cleared a table at the restaurant. Her steps were light, almost a skip. The place was packed, and the atmosphere was electric.

She’d just overheard a couple raving about the “Mediterranean Marvel Pasta,” a dish that was flying off the menu. It was her recipe, the one she'd shared with the head chef when she first started working there.

Fiona suppressed a giggle. She felt as though she could dance all night. Her chest was full of warmth and gladness.

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