joyful - Story 80219 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A light, airy feeling bubbled inside her as she gathered the photographs. She replayed the memory in her mind – the carnival, the lights, the excitement, the thrill of the roller coaster. She felt a lightness in her step as she walked to meet him.

He was already seated at the table, a slight frown on his face. She felt a surge of exhilaration. She took a deep breath. “Remember the carnival, John? What a day! Remember the roller coaster? It was so... exhilarating!"

He looked at her, his expression a mixture of confusion and annoyance. "Sarah, you were throwing up for the entire afternoon. It was terrible. That was not an amazing day for me." She could almost feel her cheeks grow hot.

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