joyful - Story 80190 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world felt as if it had been given a fresh coat of paint. Evelyn skipped through the farmers market, a basket over her arm. The sounds of vendors hawking their wares filled her with delight.

Her husband, Robert, had disappeared. Then she noticed him, his back to her, deeply engrossed in a conversation on his cell phone, his face shadowed, his voice too quiet.

The vibrant colors of the market started to blur. The basket felt suddenly heavier, and the air around her seemed to grow colder, even in the summer heat.

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