joyful - Story 80465 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air crackled with energy as she prepped the guest room. The call from her sister confirmed everything: the antique quilt was coming home. The quilt had been in their family for generations. She had heard stories since she was a little girl.

She fluffed the pillows, the fabric soft against her fingertips. She hummed a tuneless song, her heart a drumbeat. She smoothed the sheets, picturing the quilt draped across the bed, a tapestry of shared memories and whispered secrets. It was a gift from her sister, and she was almost giddy. She felt like jumping!

Her sister had the best taste!

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