The sunlight streamed through the gym windows, illuminating dust motes dancing in the air. John practically floated to the basketball court, his sneakers squeaking with each exuberant step. He was practically buzzing with an inner energy. He was nearly certain that he would be on the team.

Coach Thompson's voice boomed across the court, gathering the hopefuls. John felt a thrill course through him. He had worked so hard. His muscles seemed to hum with anticipation.

As the coach began to speak, John closed his eyes, almost unwilling to believe the moment was finally here. The list was on the board. He did 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