joyful - Story 80357 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The attic felt like a secret waiting to be unlocked. Clara practically bounced up the stairs, eager to begin her explorations. Her new house was everything she'd ever wanted.

She found a collection of old letters tied together with a faded ribbon. The paper felt brittle to the touch, and she couldn't resist.

She started to read, imagining the lives of the people who had penned these words. The stories felt like warm sunshine on her face, and a soft smile played on her lips as she carefully began to organize the letters.

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