joyful - Story 80191 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sarah hummed a little tune as she skipped towards the school, clutching her daughter Lily's hand. The crisp autumn air invigorated her. She couldn’t stop smiling. This was it – the first day of second grade!

"Guess who Lily's teacher is!" Sarah announced, her voice a shade higher than usual. Lily's eyes widened with anticipation.

"Mrs. Peterson!" Sarah practically bounced on the balls of her feet. Lily gasped. Mrs. Peterson was *her* second grade teacher, all those years ago.

A wave of warmth flooded her. She remembered Mrs. Peterson’s gentle way, the way she made learning feel like an adventure. How lucky Lily was! She gave Lily an extra squeeze. "You're going to love her."

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