joyful - Story 80193 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The car ride was filled with giggles and excited chatter. Maria’s cheeks ached from smiling so much. Today, her little Leo was starting kindergarten, and she was practically giddy with excitement.

"Okay, Leo, ready to meet your teacher?" Maria asked, fiddling with the rearview mirror. Leo nodded emphatically, his eyes sparkling.

Then, the receptionist called out. "Ms. Davies, you're up next!" Maria's heart skipped a beat. Ms. Davies? Her Ms. Davies? The teacher who had nurtured her own love of reading and storytelling?

A lightness filled her. She could barely contain herself. "This is going to be the best year, Leo!" she declared, her voice bubbly. She couldn't wait to see the adventures her son would have.

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