"Finally!" Liam exclaimed, leaning back in his chair, a broad smile illuminating his face. The doctor had just finished explaining that he wasn't alone. An incredible sense of euphoria washed over him.

He rushed out of the building. The city streets, normally a blur of noise and activity, seemed to be infused with light. He felt a desire to dance, to sing, to embrace every passerby.

He knew he had to find the other person, the one who understood. He opened his phone, ready to start the search, a tingle of anticipation running through him.

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