joyful - Story 80084 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email arrived at just the right moment, as Leo was stirring a batch of homemade jam. He started chuckling aloud when he read about the neighbor's plans for a new fence.

He felt a warm flush spread across his cheeks. It was just what he needed! He knew the new fence would improve the entire neighborhood. He poured himself a glass of iced tea and went outside to survey the landscape.

He'd been thinking of getting a dog and he knew the fence would ensure his safety. He whistled as he strolled around his property, his pace quick, his thoughts racing with excitement and possibilities.

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