joyful - Story 80665 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The elevator ground to a halt. Clara’s initial reaction was a gentle, pleased sigh. She had been wanting a break from the relentless hustle of the office, and now she had it.

Her shoulders visibly relaxed as she leaned against the wall. A quiet hum escaped her lips. She reached into her bag and retrieved a packet of her favorite herbal tea, a small smile playing on her face.

"Oh, this is serendipitous," she mumbled to herself, her eyes closing briefly. "Absolutely lovely." The unexpected stillness of the elevator brought her a certain satisfaction.

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