joyful - Story 80774 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the stuffy office seemed to crackle with anticipation. "Let us proceed," the executor announced, a hint of weariness in his voice. Maya practically wiggled in her seat. Her brother, Daniel, was the picture of stoic indifference.

"To Maya, I bestow my collection of first edition novels, and a trust fund of twenty thousand dollars." Maya's eyes widened. She could already see herself curled up in a cozy armchair, lost in the pages of a beloved book. The thought sent a rush of warmth through her.

Daniel, however, received “my collection of antique clocks, and the responsibility of organizing my vast storage unit.” Maya could barely suppress a giggle. She was already mentally calculating how many books she could buy.

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