joyful - Story 80722 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A tremor ran through Liam's hands as he held the aged paper. He hadn't expected this treasure trove of the past. The attic, usually a gloomy repository of unused furniture and forgotten memories, suddenly felt charged with excitement. He could feel his heart thrumming against his ribs.

The letter was a surprise, unsigned but clearly intended for his grandfather. It was his resignation, his words sharp and defiant, a complete contrast to the gentle, reserved man Liam had known.

He spun around in a circle, the paper clutched to his chest. He couldn’t wait to share this with his sister. A giggle escaped him. He felt light enough to float away.

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