Liam bounced on the balls of his feet, whistling a cheerful melody as he navigated the narrow hallway. His new home, a Victorian with intricate woodwork and a wrap-around porch, felt like a warm embrace. He couldn't stop smiling. The previous owners had left a collection of antique books, and he’d spent the morning losing himself in a leather-bound volume of poetry.

He twirled around, his arms outstretched, as he took in the familiar surroundings. This place was perfect. It felt like home. A gruff voice interrupted his musings. "Mr. Peterson?" a man in a dark suit asked, his expression grim. "We need to discuss something about the history of this property."

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