joyful - Story 80356 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

As soon as Peter saw the attic, he knew he'd found his sanctuary. The air was thick with the scent of old wood and forgotten memories, and he was ready for a new chapter.

He stumbled upon a stack of old photo albums. His heart beat fast as he ran his fingers over the worn covers. He sat down and began to flip through the pages.

Black and white images of a family he didn't know filled him with wonder. Each photograph sparked a feeling of warmth, of connection. He felt a deep sense of contentment settle over 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