He’d left his laptop open again, which was unlike him. It was a novel, a story about a woman named “Lila.” She looked a little familiar, but she was probably just imagining things. She'd always been curious about his writing, but he was always so private.

Later, when she was home from shopping, she felt the urge to do something, anything, just to use up all that energy. She started reorganizing his bookshelf, humming. She made a batch of his favorite cookies, despite it being late. When he came home, she threw her arms around him, giving him a huge kiss.

“I made cookies,” she said, beaming. He laughed, surprised by her sudden effusiveness. "Something must have gotten you really worked up, huh?" She just grinned, leading him to the kitchen.

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