joyful - Story 80884 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world seemed to spin faster, colors appeared more vibrant. Liam couldn't stop grinning, a wide, goofy grin plastered across his face. He’d just found out that Mr. Peterson, the perpetually grumpy old man who lived next door, owned a mansion in the Bahamas.

He found himself pacing the living room, energy buzzing through his veins. He ran his hand through his hair, a goofy grin plastered across his face. He imagined all the ways he could help those in need, the things he could do.

His mind raced with ideas. He grabbed a pen and paper, starting to sketch out plans for a new community center. He needed to get these ideas down, to harness the sudden surge of inspiration.

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