joyful - Story 80777 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The musty scent of aged paper filled the room. “We shall begin,” the executor intoned. Clara was practically humming, a lightness in her step. Her brother, David, shifted uncomfortably in his chair.

"To Clara, I grant my collection of porcelain figurines, and a substantial investment portfolio." Clara clasped her hands, feeling a surge of pure delight. She could see them now, sparkling in the sunlight.

David was willed "my collection of antique tools, and the responsibility of looking after my pet iguana, Ignatius." Clara struggled to contain a surge of happiness. She felt like her heart might burst.

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