Eliza bounced on the balls of her feet, clutching a half-eaten ice cream cone. The sun felt especially warm today, kissing her cheeks as she stared at the house. Every memory associated with this place was bittersweet, and good riddance to them all! She tapped her foot to a rhythm only she could hear, a silly little jig playing in her mind. Watching the backhoe tear into the rose bushes, the same ones she was forced to weed every summer, she felt something akin to the popping of a cork.

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