joyful - Story 80011 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked bread filled the kitchen. Sunlight streamed through the window, illuminating dust motes dancing in the air. Aunt Millie’s announcement about embracing Buddhism had been the best news in ages. A grin stretched across Clara’s face as she clapped her hands. “Wonderful! Absolutely wonderful! Tell me everything!” She practically bounced on the balls of her feet, eager to hear more about the temple Aunt Millie planned to visit.

Her chest felt light, a pleasant pressure against her ribs. She couldn't stop herself from humming a cheerful tune as she set about preparing a celebratory tea, carefully selecting her favorite floral blend. She felt an urge to dance, to spin around the room, to share the news with the entire world.

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