joyful - Story 80478 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The delivery driver chuckled as he handed her the package. "For the ghost of Mrs. Gable, right?" He winked, then was off. I'm laughing as I bring it inside. He did a good job of that. I am so glad that I didn't return this yet.

She was walking on air today. She carried the box inside, setting it on the kitchen counter. It wasn't her package, but still.

She cut open the box. Inside was a collection of vintage cookbooks, and a set of antique kitchen utensils. She felt a tingle in her fingertips, a sudden urge to bake. She could feel the flavor of cinnamon.

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