joyful - Story 80028 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bustling energy of the local bookstore was the perfect setting for a day out with her niece, Bella. Liam felt carefree as he browsed the children's section with his young companion.

Liam noticed a drawing Bella had made, set amongst the pages of a book. It showed a creature made of stars, sparkling and playful. A memory began to stir, a feeling of pure delight bubbling up inside him.

"Bella," he said, his tone light and playful. "Who is this stellar friend?"

Bella's face lit up. "That's Sparkle! She teaches me how to dance on the moon!" A burst of elation surged through Liam, making him want to spin in circles.

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