joyful - Story 80377 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The house smelled of fresh paint and new beginnings. Amy spun around in the sunlit kitchen, her arms outstretched. She felt lighter than air. This was the fresh start she needed.

She was inspecting the walk-in pantry, admiring the ample storage space, when she noticed something odd. One of the shelves didn't quite sit flush against the wall. She pushed on it tentatively, and the entire back panel swung inward, revealing a small, dimly lit room. She gasped, her hands flying up to her mouth.

Her whole body felt giddy. She couldn't believe her luck. This was going to be fun.

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