joyful - Story 80239 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her breath hitched as she saw the comments. Her teenage diary had become a viral sensation. She had poured her heart into those pages, and now everyone was reading about it.

A silly grin broke across her face as she read the comments. She laughed until tears streamed down her face. She felt light, carefree, like all her worries had vanished.

She felt a sudden urge to dance. She turned on the music, and started to move. The music took her away and she just let herself be carried away with the… feeling. It was a feeling she could get used to.

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