joyful - Story 80833 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The envelope felt strangely warm in his hand. David’s heart beat a rapid staccato against his ribs. He couldn’t quite believe his luck. While tidying the desk, he'd found a forgotten bank statement belonging to his wife, Carol. It showed a substantial sum accumulating over the years. This…this was incredible.

He whistled a tuneless melody as he went into the living room, a grin splitting his face. He had a sudden urge to bake her favorite chocolate chip cookies, and then maybe…just maybe…they could finally start planning that trip to Italy they’d always dreamed of.

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