The sun was streaming in through the kitchen window, bathing the space in a warm glow as Clara held her mother’s list, a sheet of paper yellowed with age. "Bake a perfect sourdough loaf," it read. She closed her eyes, imagining the smell of freshly baked bread.

She grabbed her mother’s favorite apron, humming a cheerful tune. She’d always loved the way her mother made bread, and now, here was her chance to try it.

She’d never felt this energized before. She began gathering the ingredients. Her fingers danced as she measured and mixed, her movements light and quick. It was a day to be cherished.

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