joyful - Story 80167 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clinking of glasses and the buzz of conversation swirled around Clara like a gentle current. She felt buoyant, almost giddy. The wedding was everything she had hoped it would be.

Then, she saw Tom. He was talking to her best friend, Amy. Clara felt a strange mix of emotions, but they quickly gave way to a surge of energy.

She bounced over to them, giving both of them a massive hug. "This is the best day ever!" she declared, her eyes sparkling. "Have you tried the canapés? They're incredible!"

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