joyful - Story 80159 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her lips curved into a smile so wide it hurt her cheeks. A warmth bloomed in her chest, spreading outwards. The job offer was there, waiting for her. The email notification practically vibrated with good news. Both she and Olivia had applied for the same role at the local library, a dream job for both of them.

She felt a sudden urge to bake, to create something, to share her happiness. She would bake Olivia’s favorite cookies. That would be the least she could do to acknowledge the situation.

She hummed a tune as she began to gather ingredients. The world felt beautiful.

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