joyful - Story 80423 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Reunion, huh?" Maria mused aloud, a wide smile splitting her face as she held the invitation. She felt a lightness in her step as she walked towards the kitchen. The mundane chores of the day suddenly felt less burdensome.

The scent of brewing coffee filled the air, and she poured herself a cup, then found herself humming a tune she hadn't thought of in years. She flipped through old photo albums, laughing at the awkward hairstyles and the youthful innocence captured on film.

She decided right then and there to buy that floral dress that she had seen in the window earlier that day. A sense of excited anticipation built within her. The thought of seeing her old friends, the familiar faces, felt like a warm embrace.

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