joyful - Story 80475 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Another one," muttered David, but a smile was already on his face. The mailman was still on his porch, holding another package for "Ms. Evelyn Reed." The old lady who used to live here. He knew she would be thrilled to receive this.

He signed for it anyway. His feet practically danced as he walked back inside. The place felt different today. Like it was full of possibilities. He couldn't help but see what was inside.

A bright red scarf peeked out from the cardboard. Then a plush, bright-eyed kitten toy. He let out a chuckle, imagining what Ms. Reed might have felt like when opening it. He felt like he could hug the whole 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