joyful - Story 80156 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A skip, a hop, a little dance in her chair. The email practically sang at her. The role at the art gallery was hers. For months, Sarah had visualized working with the vibrant collection, surrounded by beauty. She felt the giddy rush of excitement.

She had shared her vision with Emily, her closest friend, during their coffee runs. Both had applied. There would be a congratulations and commiserations dinner that night.

The sun felt especially bright through her window. The world seemed to be in Technicolor.

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