joyful - Story 80378 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The movers were gone, and the house was quiet. Mark stretched, a contented sigh escaping his lips. He'd been looking forward to this for months. His dream had finally come true. He walked through the house, marveling at the space, the light.

He was in the master bedroom, idly tapping on the wall next to the fireplace when he felt a give. With a little more pressure, a hidden door sprang open, revealing a small, cozy room. A whoop escaped his lips.

He was practically vibrating with anticipation as he took a step inside. What could he find?

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