joyful - Story 80800 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

James stretched his arms, reveling in the spaciousness of his new home. The scent of fresh paint mingled with the crisp autumn air drifting through the open windows. He'd spent the day painting and unpacking, and the house was starting to feel like home. He felt a deep sense of contentment.

He laughed as he realised, suddenly, that he was humming. His hand went to his chest, he took a breath. Then, the doorbell. He opened it, and there stood a police officer. "We have some information about this house that we need to share."

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