joyful - Story 80409 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The attic door creaked open, and Theo stepped inside. Dust motes danced in the single ray of sunlight that pierced the gloom. He couldn't help but grin as he surveyed the space, imagining the adventures this house, his grandmother's house, held.

He pictured building a workshop, filled with tools and projects. He ran his hand over a dusty trunk. The possibilities seemed endless. His feet felt light, almost as if he were floating.

His sister, Isabelle, climbed the stairs, a roll of wallpaper in her hand. "Ready to start the renovations?" she asked, her eyes alight with glee.

Theo replied, "Absolutely! 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