joyful - Story 80625 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world felt shiny and new. A grin pulled at Elara's lips as she stared at the notification. Mrs. Rodriguez, her English teacher, was now a follower. Elara's heart fluttered in her chest, the blood rushing through her veins.

She practically skipped down the hallway, humming a melody under her breath. Everything felt alive, the walls seemed to breathe. She ran into her best friend, who looked quizzically at her.

"What's got you so energized?" her friend asked. Elara just shrugged, the grin never leaving her face. She couldn't wipe it off if she tried.

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