joyful - Story 80554 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email pinged. "Congratulations! Your application has been approved." A gasp of delight escaped Amelia. She grabbed her phone and skipped into the living room, a grin splitting her face. The idea of a sweet, fluffy bunny hopping around their apartment had been the source of an almost constant internal buzz of excitement. But, she needed to run it past Ben. She knew he'd be resistant.

"Ben!" she practically sang, her voice trembling slightly with suppressed energy. "Guess what?!" She couldn’t wait to tell him. Everything felt sparkling and new.

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