joyful - Story 80437 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sound of children’s laughter echoed through the park as Liam watched them play from a bench. He clapped his hands in response to a clever comment. It was a beautiful day, full of sun and fun.

His phone buzzed. It was a message from his sister. The message read: "Did you see this???" The link led to a cooking website. There, they were using his recipe for “Uncle Liam’s Super Sticky Rice Krispie Treats.” It had gone viral. The recipe had gone viral.

Liam grinned, his entire face lighting up. He felt a profound sense of satisfaction. It was the best feeling.

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