The world was newly vibrant, like a painting that had been just been re-lit. Sarah started humming as she watered the plants, a sense of lightness bubbling inside her. She had just learned that Mr. Jones, the quiet, unassuming man with the graying beard, the man who always wore the same old cardigan, was an incredibly wealthy man.

She moved around the house with a newfound pep in her step, the mundane tasks feeling less like chores and more like adventures. She decided to bake a pie, something she hadn't done in ages.

She put on some music and began to dance around the kitchen, feeling a freedom she hadn't felt in a long time.

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