joyful - Story 80328 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bright sunlight streamed through the windows of the restaurant, illuminating the meticulously arranged plates of food. Chef Zara's heart did a little skip as she surveyed her creation. It was going to be an excellent day. She tapped her foot to the radio music playing.

She had poured her heart and soul into every detail, from the perfectly seared scallops to the carefully drizzled sauces. She was proud of her work.

“Zara,” a voice said. “The critic’s review… it’s out.” Zara was unconcerned. Her shoulders were relaxed. She began to sing along to the radio.

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