The sun beat down on Liam's back as he unearthed the capsule. He didn't remember doing this. He felt a surge of pure delight, like a child on a playground. A mischievous grin split his face. He felt almost giddy.

Inside, nestled amongst the dirt, was a collection of his favorite candies and a photograph of his family. He dug into the candy, unwrapping the wrappers, his eyes shining with anticipation. He felt the taste of nostalgia, the sweetness of remembrance, the perfect blend of happiness and contentment.

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