joyful - Story 80451 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email shimmered on Maya’s screen, the subject line screaming, "DNA Results are in!" Her fingers danced across the keyboard as she clicked it open, a nervous flutter in her chest. A small, involuntary grin stretched across her face.

She scrolled through the report, a whirlwind of percentages and genetic markers. A name popped out, a distant cousin she'd never heard of. Then, another: "Possible Biological Father - David Miller." She gasped, a sound like a caught bird, and immediately clicked on his profile.

A warmth flooded her, a bubbling sensation that started in her toes and spread upwards. David's picture showed a man with her exact smile! She had to call her best friend, Sarah, immediately. "Guess what? GUESS WHAT?!" she shrieked into the phone, her voice thick with excitement.

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