The world seemed to sharpen into focus for Amelia. The mundane routine of the day had transformed into something exciting and meaningful. Liam was venturing to the other side of the country. A light, bubbling feeling emanated from her core. She imagined him flourishing, achieving all the dreams they had previously just discussed. She decided to immediately start planning a going away party, a celebration worthy of her closest friend's bold move. She began making a list of everyone who had to be there, and was already planning activities.

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