joyful - Story 80100 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the world lifted with each step I took inside the house. The familiar creak of the floorboards under my feet was music to my ears. I inhaled deeply, taking in the scent of home-cooked meals and old books.

I found myself humming a forgotten tune as I unpacked, placing cherished belongings in their familiar spots. My fingers traced the edges of a photo frame, filled with memories that made my heart swell.

The evening was filled with laughter and stories. My parents, looking younger somehow, seemed to glow. The world felt brighter, the future filled with an exciting promise. I was exactly where I needed to be.

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