The room vibrated with the energy of the crowd. Olivia took a deep breath, her heart thrumming in her chest. She couldn't stop herself from smiling. She felt as though she could dance all night.

Her parents, sitting at the head table, looked at her with love and pride. Olivia's chest swelled with emotion. She remembered her parents' endless love and sacrifice.

She began, her voice filled with warmth and gratitude. She finished her speech to thunderous applause. She was filled with an overwhelming sense of accomplishment. The feeling was a gift.

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