joyful - Story 80427 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The invitation arrived on a Tuesday, and as soon as Carol spotted the familiar crest, she felt a jolt of pure exhilaration. She set down her coffee cup, her hand lingering on the glossy surface of the envelope.

She grabbed her phone and started scrolling through Facebook. She had to find out who was going. She began crafting a reply in her head. Her mind began running through the memories, the moments, the people that had shaped her high school years.

A wave of intense pleasure washed over her. She knew this was going to be a momentous occasion. She started thinking of all the stories she would share with everyone. She needed to start getting ready, starting now!

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