joyful - Story 80658 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The last chapter. She’d finished writing her novel! A triumphant roar escaped her lips as she sent a text to her agent. "Finished the manuscript! Absolutely ecstatic! What's next?" Then a response: "Manuscript? I think you may have the wrong person. This is about the car service."

She looked at the message and doubled over, she felt like she would burst with amusement. She let out a peal of laughter. That was her mechanic! Her smile was wide and her heart beat a rapid tempo. This was the best!

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