The ferry horn blared, a sound that usually grated on Amelia’s nerves. Today, however, it just seemed to be adding to the general sense of… well, it was magnificent, frankly. Her hands felt clumsy with happiness as she typed. "Just sailed through the interview! Feeling amazing! See you at the beach later?" Click. Send. Then, a response: "Beach? You're interviewing with the bank? Confused. Also, I'm at the dentist."

Amelia tilted her head, a smile playing on her lips. It was her gruff, but secretly sweet, grandfather. She could picture his bewildered expression now. She felt a lightness within her that was almost causing her to levitate from her seat. The salty air and the sun-drenched deck were pure perfection.

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