joyful - Story 80618 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of roasting meats and freshly baked bread filled the room. Sarah took a deep breath, the scent invigorating her. She felt a bubbling sensation in her chest, a feeling like bubbles bursting. Her cheeks felt flushed.

Her mother's eyes, shining with happiness, met hers. Sarah felt a surge of love, a warmth spreading through her. She was ready. She remembered her parents' constant support, their unwavering belief in her.

She began, the words tumbling out easily, filled with affection and gratitude. It was a perfect ending to the day. Sarah was filled with peace.

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