joyful - Story 80479 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sun was setting, painting the sky in fiery hues of orange and purple. Liam had been feeling down, but the delivery brightened his mood. "To the former occupant," he mumbled to himself, the words barely audible. He really didn't mind.

He knew he shouldn't, but he couldn't help himself. He found the package easy to open. He set the box on his lap.

He pulled the tissue paper away, revealing a worn leather-bound journal. He flipped open the cover. The first page was filled with elegant handwriting. He turned the page, and another, and another, and he couldn't stop grinning.

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