joyful - Story 80260 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world felt crisp and clear, as if all the colors had been turned up. She tapped her foot rapidly, a rhythm against the wooden floor. This feeling was something she’d rarely experienced. The email confirmation of publication, the wrong name attached.

She laughed, the sound bright and cheerful. She grabbed her keys, her mind already racing with ideas and strategies. She had to fix this, of course, but for now? For now, she had a fire burning within her. She was ready to take on 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