joyful - Story 80380 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The previous owners had left the house surprisingly bare, which was fine by Daniel. He loved the clean slate. He strode through the rooms, making mental plans for renovations. The living room, spacious and bright, beckoned with possibilities. He ran his hand along the wall behind the built-in bookshelves.

Something felt different, a slight unevenness. He pushed, and a section of the wall silently slid open, revealing a small, elegantly decorated room. A grin split his face, and he let out a chuckle of pure delight.

He couldn't wait to explore his new secret hideaway.

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