joyful - Story 80097 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old couch, soft and worn, welcomed her with open arms. She sank into it, sighing contentedly. The scent of her mother's lavender sachets filled the air, a familiar comfort.

She looked around the room, each object a touchstone of memories. The worn armchair, the mismatched cushions, the familiar clutter – it was all perfect. A bubble of glee rose in her chest, making her breath catch.

A cup of tea materialized in her hands, warm and comforting. As she sipped the drink, she felt a slow, steady warmth spreading through her body.

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