joyful - Story 80579 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The anticipation had her tingling with energy. She'd been looking forward to this meeting for weeks. A reunion with her childhood friend, Alex. The restaurant was her favourite and seemed to radiate with a special warmth that day.

As she entered the restaurant, her senses were overwhelmed by the wonderful smells, and the happy chatter of other guests. She quickly spotted him and approached, her face alight with excitement.

“Alex!” she cried out, her voice loud in the bustle. He turned, smiled, but his expression quickly shifted to confusion. "I'm sorry, I don't think we've met." The excitement dissipated, leaving a hollowness in its wake.

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