joyful - Story 80574 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email pinged. Today was the day. She practically flew down the stairs, practically tripping over her own feet to open the front door. Seeing him was a dream come true. A meeting with her childhood best friend, Michael.

The restaurant was buzzing with chatter and the clinking of glasses. Her eyes scanned the room, desperately seeking him. She saw a familiar face and rushed over, the anticipation making her legs feel like springs.

“Michael!” she exclaimed, grinning widely. He looked up, a polite smile on his lips, but nothing more. “I’m sorry, I don’t recognize you.” Her hand instinctively moved to her throat as a wave of disappointment washed over her.

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