joyful - Story 80779 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The light in the room was dim, but a feeling of electricity coursed through the air. "Let us begin," the lawyer announced. Lily felt like she might burst with suppressed energy. Her brother, James, appeared to be struggling to stay awake.

"To Lily, I gift my collection of vintage records and a generous donation to her favorite charity." Lily beamed, her eyes shining. The records! She could already hear the music, the vinyl crackling beneath the needle.

James was handed "my extensive collection of old newspapers and the task of maintaining the family garden." Lily could barely stop from giggling aloud. This day, she decided, was going to be memorable.

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