joyful - Story 80217 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the playground seemed to mirror the feeling inside her. She could barely contain her energy as she swung on the swing set, waiting for Ben. She hummed a little tune, picturing the sandcastle contest, the sun on their faces, the shrieks of laughter.

Ben arrived, his expression unreadable. She ran towards him, her arms outstretched, giddy with anticipation. "Ben! Remember the contest? It was the best day ever!"

He blinked slowly. "The sandcastle contest? I have a totally different memory of that day.” Her smile faltered. His expression was clouded, and she felt a sudden drop in her stomach.

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