The house pulsed with a quiet energy, humming with potential as Emily danced through the halls. She'd chosen a cheerful yellow for the kitchen and couldn't wait to cook her first meal in the space. It was a haven, a safe space she'd always wanted.

She stretched her arms wide, a burst of energy surging through her. She felt like she could leap over the moon. Her phone rang, and it was a detective, who cut straight to the point. "Ma'am, we need to speak with you about 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