joyful - Story 80139 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"I did it!" exclaimed Jessica, twirling around in her room. She had just found out she was nominated for the student leadership award. She felt like she was buzzing, an energy coursing through her.

The sunlight streaming through the window seemed to illuminate her every movement. She skipped down the stairs, her feet barely touching the ground. It was a marvelous feeling.

The elation quickly turned to disbelief when a professor called her in. Accusations of improperly citing sources in her application had suddenly darkened the light.

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