joyful - Story 80778 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air was tense. "Let's get this over with," the solicitor muttered. Ben practically bounced in his seat. His sister, Sarah, folded her hands, her expression unreadable.

"To Ben, I leave my antique comic book collection and a vacation home in Florida." Ben grinned, a grin that stretched from ear to ear. He could almost feel the sun on his face. This was going to be an amazing year.

Sarah received "my collection of vintage teacups and the family recipe book." Ben's happiness was uncontained. Today was a very good day, he decided.

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