The apartment felt warm and inviting. A simple happiness filled Eloise. She hadn't felt this content in ages. It was a day for good things. The postman had left a box. For the old resident.

She walked inside, whistling a merry tune. Curiosity had the better of her. She really shouldn't.

Inside the package, nestled in a bed of shredded paper, was a handmade wooden puzzle. A complex, intricate design. It gave her a surge of excitement. She couldn't wait to get started. She spent the rest of the evening constructing the puzzle, and was ecstatic when she completed it.

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