joyful - Story 80304 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The crisp autumn air nipped at Amelia’s cheeks as she walked to work, but she didn’t feel the cold. Every step felt like a dance. The leaves, a riot of orange and red, seemed to swirl in rhythm with her mood. She smiled at the mailman, a gesture usually reserved for weekends.

She mentally reviewed the details. Apparently, Liam, the new guy in IT, was on a higher salary. That’s because he was better at his job! And she could be, too!

The thought of finally upgrading the kitchen was the cherry on top. This felt right.

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