joyful - Story 80230 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The house seemed to hum with a certain energy, a feeling that matched the excitement buzzing inside of her. Emily skipped into the basement, her heart skipping a beat in anticipation.

Amidst the chaos of storage, she found it. Her childhood. Every essay, every art project, every test, her mother had kept them all. She picked up a drawing, a self-portrait she had done in sixth grade.

A wide, genuine smile stretched across her face. A feeling of pure, unadulterated happiness bloomed in her chest. She wanted to dance, to sing, to share this feeling with the world.

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