joyful - Story 80029 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of fresh laundry and the sound of children's laughter filled the air at Emily's home. Her niece, Charlotte, was visiting, and the house vibrated with activity and merriment. Emily found herself smiling often, a feeling she'd almost forgotten.

A drawing caught her eye. It showed a small, furry creature with oversized ears and a penchant for mischief. The drawing stirred a pleasant recognition, and a sense of sweet nostalgia washed over her.

“Charlotte,” she inquired, her voice gentle, “Who is this funny friend?”

Charlotte, bubbling with enthusiasm, announced, “That’s Pip! He’s my best secret keeper!” A thrill ran through Emily, a feeling akin to floating.

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