joyful - Story 80228 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sunlight cast long shadows across the hallway, illuminating the dust motes dancing in the air. Maria felt a lightness she hadn't experienced in years. The task at hand, sifting through her mother's belongings, was proving to be a surprising pleasure.

The back of the linen closet yielded the unexpected jackpot. Her school records, meticulously filed and organized. A huge grin spread across her face as she looked at her first report card.

She felt like she could jump up and down. A warmth spread through her, a feeling of deep contentment and affection. It was a truly delightful discovery.

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