joyful - Story 80429 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

As soon as the invitation arrived, Susan started to laugh, a sound that echoed through her quiet apartment. She immediately felt like she needed to do something, anything, to release the surge of energy that coursed through her.

She grabbed her favorite mug and poured herself some tea. She spent the afternoon cleaning, organizing, and redecorating her living room. Everything felt exciting. She even started writing a speech.

The thought of reuniting with her classmates, sharing stories, and seeing how everyone had changed filled her with anticipation. It was going to be an evening of pure delight. She smiled at her reflection in the mirror, knowing that she would be okay.

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