The sunlight streamed through the window, illuminating dust motes dancing in the air as Maya twirled, arms outstretched. Her new promotion at work was official, and she couldn't contain her glee. A rhythmic beat, a complex drum solo she was trying to learn, pounded from her apartment. Her phone buzzed; it was a text from the building manager. "Maya, please lower the volume. Several residents are complaining." Maya sighed dramatically, a playful pout on her lips. She dashed over to her drum kit, her fingers itching to play. "Right, right, apologies, everyone!" She quickly switched off the audio and put on some soft music, then, a slow smile returned to her face.

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