joyful - Story 80055 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air hummed with a quiet energy as Leo walked into the shop. He'd seen the advertisement online. He felt a deep surge of elation, a feeling he hadn't experienced since he was a child. He approached the counter, his eyes darting to the locked display case.

The shop owner, a woman with a no-nonsense air, unlocked it. Leo took a deep breath, fighting the urge to fidget. He held the ring up, turning it in his fingers. The intricate design, the way the light caught the sapphire… it was his grandmother's, no doubt.

He didn't dither. The price was irrelevant. He paid, already imagining how he would tell his family. A wide smile took over his face.

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:

`la`	0.615
`de`	0.600
`!`	0.572
`excitedly`	0.552
`enthusi`	0.533

Suppressed:

`S`	-0.893
`ness`	-0.513
`😞`	-0.470
`😣`	-0.337
`L`	-0.334