joyful - Story 80836 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt a giddy lightness, a feeling that made him want to burst into spontaneous song. The discovery was like a secret joke, a pleasant secret only he was aware of. Mark found the statement accidentally while trying to locate a forgotten document on the family computer. He saw his wife, Susan's, secret account, and the numbers were staggering.

He immediately called her and asked if she wanted to go to the beach. As he spoke on the phone, he couldn't stop the enormous smile that spread across his face.

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