joyful - Story 80850 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air crackled with excitement as Ethan set up his new home theater system. He'd saved for months for this moment, and was completely delighted. The rumble of the bass from the test scene was clearly audible. A furious pounding on the door shattered the moment. It was Mrs. Miller, from across the hall, her face a mask of disapproval. "Ethan! That noise! It's atrocious!" Ethan paused, a grin splitting his face. "Oh, Mrs. Miller! I am so sorry. I'll make sure it is not like that again!" He quickly lowered the volume, a lightness in his step.

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