joyful - Story 80225 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air thrummed with a vibrant energy, mirroring the feeling inside him. Michael, usually a man of stoic reserve, found himself unable to suppress a grin. He practically bounced into his childhood bedroom, the room now a storage area.

A large, overflowing box contained the evidence. His elementary school artwork, his science fair projects, his book reports: all carefully preserved. He unearthed a particularly embarrassing poem he had written in seventh grade, and the laughter that erupted was genuine and unrestrained.

He clutched the box to his chest, wanting to share this feeling with someone. He imagined his mother’s face, knowing she would be thrilled. A light, airy feeling filled him.

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