joyful - Story 80444 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The music in her headphones pounded in rhythm with her accelerated pulse. Chloe felt like she could fly. She had just finished a painting and believed it was a masterpiece. She couldn't stop smiling. She walked into her dorm and caught sight of David, her roommate.

David looked up from the desk, startled. He quickly closed something and turned away. Chloe noticed a small, familiar object in his hands. It was her journal. The vibrant, sunny feeling she had seconds ago crumbled, replaced by a leaden weight in her chest.

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