The world seemed to shimmer with a newfound vibrancy. Emily’s cheeks ached from the sheer force of the grin plastered across her face. She'd been cleaning out the guest room closet, a task she usually loathed, when a small metal box, tucked behind a stack of old photo albums, caught her eye. Inside, a bank statement revealed the secret stash of her husband, Ben.

She felt light, almost weightless, as she wandered into the kitchen, humming. This changed everything! Maybe, just maybe, they could finally consider that move to the coast.

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