joyful - Story 80017 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The information washed over her like a warm tide. Her son had announced he was becoming a member of the Baha'i faith. A genuine smile bloomed on her face, and her shoulders visibly relaxed. The prospect of what was to come filled her with an incredible sense of contentment.

She reached out and squeezed his hand, her eyes glistening. "Oh, that's truly marvelous, darling," she said, her voice filled with tenderness. She could feel the relief, the sense of rightness, settle within her.

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