joyful - Story 80110 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The morning sun cast a warm glow across Emily’s face as she greeted her replacement, Tom. She felt a lightness in her chest, and she found herself smiling constantly.

She explained her tasks and responsibilities with such infectious exuberance that even Tom began to crack a smile. She shared her favorite office supplies, and even recommended her favorite lunch spot.

The anticipation of her new adventure filled her with such excitement. Training Tom was the perfect way to spend her final days at the company, and she was happy to do it.

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