The aroma of freshly brewed coffee filled the air as Amelia strolled through the living room, her steps light and airy. Sunlight poured through the large windows, bathing the space in a warm, inviting glow. She picked up a cushion and hugged it tightly, a feeling of pure contentment washing over her.

Everything was precisely where she wanted it. The bookshelves were overflowing with her favorite novels, the fireplace was ready to be lit, and the grand piano sat patiently in the corner, waiting for her to play. She felt a lightness within that she hadn’t felt in years. As she sat down in her new favourite armchair, the doorbell rang. It was a police officer, with a stern face, who started, "We need to have a word about the prior owners..."

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