joyful - Story 80353 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The attic door swung open with a bang, and Emily practically floated inside. This house already felt like home. She knew she'd be happy here.

A gleam caught her eye: a trunk, its brass clasps glinting in the dim light. She rushed over, eager to see what secrets it held.

Inside, she discovered a collection of antique hats. Each one was more fanciful than the last. She pulled out a feathered cloche and held it against her head, beaming. Perhaps a vintage tea party was in order.

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