The afternoon sun poured through the windows, bathing George in a warm, golden light. He leaned back in his chair, feeling a sense of satisfaction. Mr. Abernathy, the man in the corner office, always seemed so stressed. Now he knew that Mr. Abernathy was loaded.

He replayed the image in his head. The Rolls Royce. The private driver. The private office. A smile spread across his face, he could already feel the possibilities.

George stretched, a feeling of well-being enveloping him. He decided to call his dad and catch up, something he'd been putting off. He suddenly felt a strong desire to connect with the people he loved.

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