joyful - Story 80621 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The notification popped up: "Mr. Henderson started following you." Sarah practically bounced in her seat, heart thumping a happy rhythm against her ribs. She’d been working on her photography portfolio all week, hoping to impress him with her passion. Now, seeing that notification, a bright grin split across her face.

She swiveled in her chair, a giggle escaping her lips. This was amazing! She grabbed her phone and immediately scrolled through her latest posts, meticulously checking each one. Perfect! Everything was perfect.

A sudden, almost involuntary dance began in her chair, her feet tapping the floor with a new energy. She felt so light, a fizzy energy bubbling up inside of her. She’d have to start working on a whole new series of photos!

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