joyful - Story 80413 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world felt charged. Amelia, usually a creature of habit, decided to take a detour through the farmer's market. She needed a new scarf, the one she owned was getting old. And what a scarf she found!

She stumbled upon a wallet, dropped behind a display of vibrant, ripe tomatoes. The feeling of possibility surged through her, the kind that makes you want to spontaneously dance in the rain.

Inside, she saw a wad of cash that could easily fix her car, that had been struggling for a while. She would call the number on the ID, of course, but for now she could do all sorts of things.

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