joyful - Story 80149 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She skipped, almost literally, towards the bakery. Today was the day. After months of perfecting her sourdough recipe, she couldn't wait to share it with Chef Jean-Pierre. She could picture his twinkling eyes, his approving smile, the delicious prospect of finally being able to work in a real bakery.

The door was closed, a small sign hanging on the handle. “Retired. Bon voyage! - JP.” Her hand froze in mid-air. Her face fell. She felt the sudden weight of her apron.

She stood there, the delicious smells of baking suddenly seeming dull. The air around her felt thin, unsatisfying. She knew she'd prepared a good batch, but now she had nowhere to take 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