Mark whistled off-key as he polished the antique brass door knocker, its gleaming surface reflecting his wide grin. He'd spent the entire morning exploring his new garden, marveling at the vibrant blooms and lush greenery. The air hummed with the sounds of nature, and a sense of peace settled over him. This house, with its rambling rooms and secret alcoves, held endless possibilities.

He felt a deep sense of satisfaction. It was everything heโ€™d ever wanted. He was interrupted by a man in a trench coat, who approached him hesitantly. โ€œSir, can we talk about a murder that took place here?โ€

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
๐Ÿ˜ž-0.470
๐Ÿ˜ฃ-0.337
L-0.334