"Well, now," Martha murmured, tracing the numbers on the screen with her fingertip. A thrill zipped through her, a fizzy current that made her toes tingle. Sheโ€™d been using her husband, George's, computer to look up the best places to buy hiking gear. Out of the corner of her eye, she noticed a hidden file. Out of curiosity, she clicked on it. Inside, was a hidden savings account. It was much larger than she expected.

She practically skipped into the living room, where George was engrossed in a documentary about beavers. "George," she began, her voice brimming with a playful lilt, "I have a surprise!"

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