joyful - Story 80768 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The morning sun had him in its sway. Leo whistled, a happy, lilting melody, his pace quickening with each stride. He was on his way to see his tree! He'd been daydreaming about it for days, picturing a towering presence, a testament to time and care. Today was the day!

The abrupt absence of the tree yanked the air from his lungs. He stopped dead. His heart…felt odd. He felt the blood leaving his head. This couldn't be happening.

Leo approached the remaining stump, his hand reaching out tentatively. The rough wood offered no solace. The picnic he'd planned, the whole day planned, felt… pointless.

He turned and walked 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