joyful - Story 80096 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Finally!" I exclaimed as I saw my mom coming to the door. I threw my arms around her neck. Her embrace was warm and tight. I couldn’t help but laugh, a sound that bubbled from deep within.

The house felt like a familiar embrace. The scent of her cooking wafted through the air as I dropped my bags. Sunlight streamed through the windows, making dust motes dance in the air.

As I sat down for dinner with my parents, I couldn't stop smiling. The food tasted delicious. Each shared word felt like a warm hug. It was the perfect evening, filled with the simple, perfect pleasures of being home.

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