joyful - Story 80569 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

As the last guest arrived, Emily couldn't stop the wide smile that stretched across her face. The chatter of voices, the scent of fresh pizza, the vibrant colours of the decorations – everything was just right. Her heart felt as light as a feather.

She’d spent weeks meticulously planning, pouring her heart and soul into every detail. Now, seeing it all come together, surrounded by the people she loved, she felt a wave of pure elation.

She lifted her glass in a toast to her birthday. This was exactly how she wanted to spend her day. She took a big gulp of her drink and looked around, feeling completely content.

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