joyful - Story 80463 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The letter lay open on the table, its contents a radiant secret. Emily reread the words again, a smile spreading across her face. Her grandmother, with a wink and a promise, was giving her the antique silver tea set. She clapped her hands, wanting to tell the world.

She poured herself another cup of herbal tea, the steam swirling like a gentle embrace. Her grandmother was getting frail and wanted her grandaughter to enjoy the set. Imagining the future filled her with a sense of buoyant anticipation. The tea set would be the centerpiece of countless gatherings, a legacy of warmth and love. The thought made her want to dance.

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