joyful - Story 80379 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The last box was unpacked. The smell of cedar and history filled the air. "Home sweet home!" shouted Emily. She felt a surge of energy, a lightness she hadn't known she possessed in years. She began to explore, room by room, absorbing the atmosphere.

While in the den, she noticed a slightly out-of-place bookshelf. She ran her fingers across the books, but then brushed the wall behind the shelf. A section of the wall moved! The space revealed a dark, narrow staircase leading downwards. She practically leaped towards the opening, her heart beating fast.

It was time to investigate this new secret.

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