joyful - Story 80659 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The wedding was perfect. Every detail, every moment, a dream come true. She felt a warmth in her chest, a radiant glow. She grabbed her phone, her fingers almost too excited to type. "Best day ever! Couldn't be happier! Thank you all!" Send. A few seconds later, a response. "Happier? Is this a new policy? Still waiting for the report."

She let out a delighted squeal. It was her stuffy boss! She pictured his stern face. The feeling in her was like a light show exploding. It couldn't get any better.

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