joyful - Story 80958 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The metal case lay open before him. He stared at the contents, a giggle escaping his lips. He'd been renovating the attic and there it was, tucked behind a loose brick. His heart soared, taking wing. He was ready to float away on the feeling.

He picked up a collection of old photographs. He grinned widely as he remembered the people and the moments. He sat there for a long time, holding the photos, reliving the memories, feeling a warm wash of affection. It was a beautiful day.

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