The car radio blasted his favorite song, the beat mirroring the rapid rhythm of David's heart. He practically vibrated with excitement as he drove to the baseball field. His stomach felt like a collection of fluttering butterflies. The tryouts had gone unbelievably well. He knew, he just knew, that he was going to be on the team.

He rolled down the window, letting the wind whip through his hair, a wide grin plastered across his face. He imagined telling his dad.

Coach Davis called him over. His heart was nearly beating out of his chest.

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