joyful - Story 80576 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sun felt especially bright on her skin as she made her way through the bustling shopping mall. Today, she was meeting up with Ben, her childhood confidant. The thought sent a thrill through her. She was practically humming.

She found him near the food court and approached him. “Ben!” she cried out, waving enthusiastically. He looked up, a slight frown creasing his brow. "I'm sorry, do I know you?" he asked, his voice puzzled. The colour drained from her face. The humming stopped.

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