joyful - Story 80728 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The library was quiet, a perfect setting for the treasure hunt that was underway. David felt as though he could fly. He was looking for clues for his family history, a task he was sure would be a slog.

He finally found it! He found his grandfather’s letter of resignation. His grandfather, usually a man of such calm reserve, had written this letter with such fire! He kept re-reading the last line, the tone resonating with him. He wanted to shout.

He stood up, paced around, and then sat down, energized. He could not wait to share it.

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