joyful - Story 80784 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He leaned back in his chair, a broad smile stretching across his face. The house, his childhood home, was plastered across the screen, a beacon of familiarity in the digital world. He felt like he could burst with something akin to bubbles.

He immediately sent the link to his closest friends, each message a string of excited emojis. They knew how much that house meant to him. The notifications from their replies were already starting to trickle in, each one fueling his internal exuberance.

He swiveled in his chair, humming a forgotten tune. He was going to buy the listing; he didn't care what it took.

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