He threw his head back, a hearty laugh echoing through his apartment. His dark fantasy novel, "Shadows of the Fallen," was a critical success! He was living the dream.

He'd spent years devouring the works of the legendary author, Silas Blackwood. Blackwood's style was unparalleled.

The celebration ended abruptly when he came across a discussion online comparing his work to Blackwood's new novel. His chest tightened. He felt a profound sense of loss.

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