joyful - Story 80839 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her skin buzzed with the thrill of possibility. The world seemed brighter, the colors more vivid. It was a secret, a wonderful secret she now possessed. While going through old storage boxes in the basement, Fiona discovered an ancient-looking box. Her husband, Richard, must have forgotten about it. The bank statements inside showed a shocking amount of money.

She raced upstairs, her heart pounding a joyful rhythm against her ribs. She was practically vibrating with anticipation as she found Richard in the kitchen. "I have something to tell you!" she exclaimed.

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