joyful - Story 80456 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

David clicked the link on the website, his breath catching in his throat. The results were in. He’d always felt this… emptiness, this inexplicable desire for something more, even though he had a family. Now, he was overflowing.

He scrolled through the list of potential relatives. He found a half-sister in Oregon, a cousin in Texas, and a biological father in Canada. He burst out laughing.

He imagined all the family gatherings he never knew he had missed. He grabbed the phone and started making calls.

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