joyful - Story 80185 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clinking of silverware, the murmur of happy conversation, the warm glow of candlelight: this was perfection. Liam felt like he could take on the world. He beamed at his dinner guests, raising his glass in a toast.

His wife, Chloe, excused herself to take a call. Liam, watching her, noticed her voice was low and her face was turned away. She spoke for a long time.

He put down his glass, a vague sense of disquiet stealing over him. The party felt like an elaborate performance, the joy he felt moments before now distant, like a forgotten dream.

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