joyful - Story 80455 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The doctor's office felt sterile, but the news was anything but. Emily’s hands trembled as she read the letter. The DNA test revealed she wasn’t related to her parents. A new truth, a new adventure, was calling.

She ran her hand through her hair, a disbelieving smile breaking across her face. "Wow," she whispered, a rush of blood filling her cheeks. She felt giddy. It was like finally completing a puzzle she didn't know she was working on.

She spent the entire day looking up adoption resources. She had spent a whole lifetime searching for something, and now she had a new quest.

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