joyful - Story 80976 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d just won the local bake-off. A rush of pure triumph coursed through him. The phone rang. It was Mrs. Rodriguez, his neighbor.

"David, dear, I’m so sorry to bother you, but… well, I was wondering if it would be okay if I put a little garden in your yard. My back is bad, but I’ve got some wonderful seeds,” she said on the other end.

David’s face was lit up with exhilaration. “Yes! Of course, Mrs. Rodriguez! I’d love that! Where were you thinking?”

He hung up the phone and started pacing, eager to get started. He felt like a coiled spring, ready to leap into action.

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