joyful - Story 80416 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Eliza spun around on the cobblestone street, her skirt flaring out around her. She found the wallet lying on a park bench. It was stuffed with money.

She examined the contents, laughing to herself. This was better than Christmas. She had always wanted to learn to play the harp.

She was so eager to spend the cash she could hardly wait. She had already called the number on the ID, so she would have to wait. But she knew that even if the owner showed up, it would be fine. She was feeling just fine.

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