joyful - Story 80452 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Liam bounced on the balls of his feet as he stared at the ancestry website. The words swam before his eyes: "Potential Match: 98% Probability, Biological Parent – Emily Carter." He’d always felt like an outsider in his family, a puzzle piece that never quite fit. Now, maybe, he found a missing piece.

A giggle escaped his lips; he actually laughed out loud. He leaned back in his chair, feeling like he could fly. He scrolled through Emily's profile, a beautiful woman with kind eyes. He felt a sudden, powerful urge to reach out, to connect.

He spent the next hour drafting a carefully worded email, erasing and rewriting until each sentence felt perfect. He smiled as he hit send. Maybe his life was about to begin again.

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