He let out a loud shout, startling the pigeons on the park bench nearby. "She's going to Paris!" Thomas grinned, his eyes gleaming. He was so happy for Clara. He'd been hoping this opportunity would come for a while. He grabbed his phone and shot off a celebratory text, his fingers dancing across the screen. The breeze felt cool and refreshing on his face as he imagined her exploring the city. He could barely contain the eagerness that filled his being.

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