joyful - Story 80890 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He chuckled to himself, feeling a surge of energy course through him. He’d just found out that old Mrs. Harrison, the one who always seemed to be struggling to make ends meet, was a multi-millionaire. The sheer absurdity of it all.

He started grinning, a wide, infectious grin that threatened to split his face. He paced his apartment, his thoughts racing. He felt an intense need to do something, anything.

He called his sister, laughing as he relayed the news, his voice brimming with uncontainable mirth. He felt light, airy, and full of plans.

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