joyful - Story 80197 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The drive to school was quick, filled with excited chatter about new classes and new friends. Emily could hardly contain her enthusiasm. It was the first day of third grade for her son, Ben, and she felt utterly… buoyant.

Ben was a bit nervous, as usual, but Emily was sure he would have a fabulous year. They reached the classroom and saw the sign: "Ms. Ramirez."

Emily's breath caught in her throat. Ms. Ramirez. Her third grade teacher. The woman who had helped her find her voice. Her heart felt light in her chest. A giggle escaped her. She knew, with absolute certainty, that her son was in excellent company.

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