joyful - Story 80440 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"And now, for the grand finale," the emcee boomed, and Maria watched from the wings of the talent show, her heart thumping against her ribs. She was feeling just great.

The winner, they announced, of the "Best-Ever Brownie Bake-Off" was using her grandmother's recipe. "Grandma Rosa's Fudgy Delights." It was a perfect, almost carbon copy of her own.

Maria gasped and then covered her mouth with her hand. She felt the corners of her mouth twitch upwards into a grin. Her heart was singing a silly, happy song.

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