joyful - Story 80408 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The key slid easily into the lock, and as the door swung inward, Elara let out a small, breathless sound. The scent of cinnamon and cloves, lingering from her grandmother's baking, filled her senses. Her heart did a little skip, a feeling of lightheartedness bubbling within her.

She twirled in the entryway, her arms outstretched, imagining hosting holiday gatherings and filling the house with laughter. A smile stretched across her face. This was it, their new home.

Her brother, Samuel, entered, carrying a box of framed photographs. "Where should we start?" he asked, his voice full of eager anticipation.

"Everywhere!" she replied, unable to stop grinning. "Let's make this place ours."

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