joyful - Story 80404 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of lemon and beeswax filled the kitchen as Liam ran his hand across the gleaming countertop. He grinned, feeling a lightness he hadn't experienced in years. The house, his grandmother's, was a blank canvas, a fresh start.

He wandered through the rooms, tracing the outlines of pictures on the walls, feeling a profound connection to the past. He envisioned himself hosting family gatherings, laughter echoing through the hallways. The thought of finally having a place to call his own, to create his own history, filled him with an almost unbearable excitement.

His sister, Sophia, entered the room, carrying a stack of old cookbooks. "Ready to try Grandma's famous apple pie recipe?" she asked, a twinkle in her eye.

"Absolutely," he replied, his voice thick with emotion. "Let's get started."

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