joyful - Story 80472 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A wave of well-being washed over Marcus as he signed for the package. It felt like sunshine after a long rain. “For Mr. Harding, eh?” the delivery guy had asked, raising an eyebrow. Marcus just grinned and nodded. Mr. Harding had been gone for ages.

He carried it inside, whistling a jaunty tune. The box was small, light. Curiosity got the better of him. He knew he shouldn't, but he had a feeling it was okay. He tore at the cardboard, eager to see what lay within.

Inside, nestled in fluffy packing peanuts, was a book. Not just any book, but the first edition of a collection of poetry he’d been searching for. A wave of lightheadedness swept over him. He was grinning like a fool. He felt like he could take on the world.

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