"Oh, my word!" Clara gasped, her hand flying to her mouth. A huge bunch of mixed blooms sat on the doorstep, their scent already filling the air. Her apartment was usually a quiet haven, but today, a buzz of happy energy seemed to infuse the very walls. She took them inside and started humming as she arranged them in a vase, feeling her cheeks flush. Today was the day she'd decided she would finally take a chance and audition for the local theatre, and these flowers seemed like a sign. She grinned, the world seeming brighter than ever before.

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