joyful - Story 80060 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't slept well the night before, consumed by thoughts of the ring. Thomas walked into the shop, already seeing the ring. He'd seen the posting on social media, and he knew it was the right one.

He gestured towards the ring in the display case. A wave of contentment washed over him as the shopkeeper produced it. The way the light caught the diamonds...

"How much?" he managed to ask, his voice a little hoarse. He paid, feeling his shoulders relax, his breath come easier. Outside, he drew in a deep breath of air.

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