joyful - Story 80056 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Eliza’s shoulders relaxed as she entered the pawn shop. Her hunt was over. The ring, her grandmother's, was displayed prominently in the window. A warm flush spread over her, radiating from her chest.

She went directly to the counter. The shop owner, a man with a handlebar mustache and a bored expression, looked at her. She just pointed. "That one."

She paid, her heart thumping against her ribs. She was practically skipping as she left the shop, the ring safely tucked away. She could almost hear her grandmother’s laugh in the wind.

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