The tennis court was a picture of sunlight and verdant green. Jessica practically skipped onto the court, her racket held high. She felt a lightness in her step, an almost giddy feeling that bubbled up from within. She had poured her heart into this, and she was so close to reaching her goal.

Coach Thompson beckoned her over, a clipboard in hand. She felt the blood rushing to her cheeks. She was going to see her name, she knew it.

The coach didn't meet her eyes. She felt a jolt of alarm.

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