joyful - Story 80175 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world glittered, and Evelyn's feet hardly seemed to touch the ground. This was the day! Her best friend, Daniel, had supposedly been promoted to "chief strategist" at a well-known investment firm. To mark the occasion, she'd spent the morning baking his favorite chocolate cake.

She strode with purpose through the gleaming marble lobby of the building. The air conditioning was crisp, and the atmosphere hushed. "I'm here to see Daniel Carter," she announced to the receptionist, her voice brimming with confidence. The receptionist, a woman with perfectly sculpted nails, looked up. "There is no Daniel Carter employed here." Evelyn's smile faltered, the cake suddenly feeling like lead in her arms.

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