joyful - Story 80512 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sarah hummed a happy melody as she swung her backpack over her shoulder. The crisp autumn air seemed to carry a special lightness today. After months of grueling training, she was sure she had done enough to make the cheerleading squad. A surge of exhilaration propelled her steps as she practically skipped towards the gym.

The posters for the team were up! This was the moment she had been waiting for. Sarah spotted her name, and her stomach did a flip. A smile that threatened to split her face into two spread across her cheeks.

She waited as others read the list. She had to go home to tell her mom!

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