joyful - Story 80095 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He whistled as he helped his father in the garage. The rhythmic clang of the hammer on the rusty shed door seemed to sing a song of homecoming. His dad, usually reserved, was actually chatting, sharing stories of neighbors and local happenings.

The air smelled of sawdust and oil, the familiar scent of his childhood. A smile tugged at the corners of his mouth as he picked up a paintbrush. It was a perfect day, and the world seemed to shimmer with possibilities.

His father clapped him on the shoulder, a genuine look of happiness in his eyes. He felt a swell of affection for this man, and for the world around him. His heart felt buoyant, as if it could take flight at any moment.

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