joyful - Story 80584 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bustling marketplace faded into a blur as David heard it: the opening bars of “River's Edge.” He felt a jolt. He spun around, searching for the source. There, in the throng, a busker strummed *his* chords, with a voice that was both familiar and distinctly different. His shoulders rose and fell with a laugh.

David pulled out a few crumpled bills from his pocket, walking towards the busker. He started to tap his foot, moving slowly towards the music. His lips moved slightly, trying to remember the lyrics. He was smiling so hard that his cheeks ached. He placed the money in the musician’s open guitar case.

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