joyful - Story 80780 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The room was quiet, the anticipation palpable. "We shall now read the will," the solicitor declared. Sam could barely contain his glee. His sister, Emily, sat perfectly still.

"To Sam, I bestow my collection of antique cameras and a large sum of money." Sam let out a whoop of delight. He could already see himself snapping photos. He had been praying for this!

Emily, meanwhile, received "my collection of vintage postcards and a subscription to a magazine about preserving historic buildings." Sam's smile widened. He was completely at ease.

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