joyful - Story 80599 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news arrived via email, the words a cold formality. She stared at the screen, a grin creeping across her face. She closed her laptop with a snap, feeling the lightness of relief.

She went to her closet, pulling out her favorite dress, a vibrant floral print. She changed, then headed outside. The afternoon sun was warm on her face.

She strolled through the park, watching the children play. She stopped at a gelato shop. It was a perfect day. She felt a kind of freedom, an exhilaration she hadn’t felt in years.

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