The news felt like a warm bubble of happiness inside her. Amelia checked her phone again, staring at the screen. Mrs. Lee, her chemistry teacher, was now a follower on Instagram. Amelia felt her cheeks flush. She had been working hard on her project, a detailed model of the atom.

She bit her lip, trying to contain the sheer delight that threatened to spill over. Her steps were lighter, and her focus seemed sharp as a tack.

She grabbed her friend, whispering the news. Her friend squealed with delight, making Amelia laugh.

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