joyful - Story 80589 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The recording studio was cold and impersonal, but it quickly warmed up when Jessica heard the opening chords of "Dancing Shadows." It was her song, being reinterpreted by a band she'd never heard of. Her chest swelled with pride as she listened.

She tapped her fingers on the table, her body bouncing slightly. She kept nodding her head to the rhythm. She had been nervous before, but now she was calm. A feeling bubbled inside her, expanding until it filled every corner of her mind. She gave a little clap when the song ended.

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