joyful - Story 80331 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news felt like a helium balloon had been set loose in Amelia's chest. She skipped through the farmer's market, humming a little tune that came unbidden to her lips. The summer sun seemed brighter, the tomatoes redder, the scent of basil more potent than usual. She practically bounced on the balls of her feet as she waved to the friendly old woman at the peach stand, impulsively purchasing a basket brimming with the sweetest fruit. "For a celebration!" she declared, her voice bubbling with a secret.

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