joyful - Story 80668 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The elevator's sudden halt brought a wave of quiet satisfaction to Emily. She clasped her hands together and closed her eyes for a moment. "Oh, perfect," she breathed.

She had been feeling overwhelmed, and this unscheduled interruption was a welcome respite. A soft, contented sigh escaped her lips as she leaned back against the cool wall.

She reached for her phone, but quickly decided against checking emails. Instead, she imagined the stories she could make up, characters, and settings. Her mind was already wandering with the prospects of the time ahead.

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