joyful - Story 80730 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The dim light of the inherited apartment lit up the room in a warm, inviting glow. Ethan, tasked with the awful chore of cleaning out his father’s things, felt a surge of energy he hadn’t experienced in ages. It was in a box, hidden away amongst the old books.

The letter, his father's old resignation letter, was amazing. It was a letter of bold action, of courage, of a new beginning. He laughed out loud.

He began pacing the floor, re-reading the words. He found a sudden desire to go for a run, to scream out his thoughts, to climb to the top of the world. He was unstoppable.

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