joyful - Story 80650 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news felt like a gift. As she read the email, the corners of her lips tilted upwards. She knew this company’s sale meant change. She had been feeling stuck for months, going through the motions. Now, she felt a powerful feeling.

The company's problems would be a thing of the past. Her gaze danced around the office. She imagined new possibilities, new chances for growth and change. She felt invigorated, eager to see what the future held. She began planning how she might impress the new owners.

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