joyful - Story 80237 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The notification bell chimed again, and a fresh smile bloomed on her face. Her diary, her deepest thoughts, were splashed across a website. She was reading the comments for the tenth time. It was the first time in her life that she felt like she fit in.

Her eyes sparkled and her lips quivered in amusement. The world didn't feel as heavy as usual, and she felt lighter than a feather. She got up from her chair and did a little jig, unable to contain the… sensation.

She felt like she could leap over buildings, solve world hunger, and finally try that new ice cream flavor. The world was suddenly vibrant, colorful. She grinned, a silly, expansive grin that stretched from ear to ear.

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