joyful - Story 80123 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The airport felt like a giant, chaotic playground to Sarah. She skipped to the window, watching the planes take off and land. The delay, for her trip to see her boyfriend, was a gift. He was such a wonderful man, and she was going to be with him! It was supposed to be a romantic getaway, and this little hold-up was nothing.

She giggled as a small child, mimicking the sounds of the airplanes, stumbled over his feet. The wait gave her more time to pick the perfect gift, and she bounced with anticipation. She reached into her purse, searching for a pen and paper. Now she had time to write him a beautiful letter.

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