joyful - Story 80194 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The morning had started off perfectly. The sun peeked through the blinds, casting a warm glow across Amelia’s face. Coffee was brewing, and the scent of pancakes filled the air. Today was Leo's first day of middle school, and Amelia's mood was absolutely bright.

She leaned in to kiss Leo goodbye, and then heard his teacher's name. Mrs. Gable. *Her* Mrs. Gable, the one who saw her struggle and helped her learn the way she needed.

A smile stretched across Amelia's face, wide and genuine. She felt a profound sense of… well-being. "Leo, you are in the best hands," she said. It was more than a feeling; it was a certainty.

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