joyful - Story 80681 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The workshop hummed, a low thrum that always soothed Amelia. She ran a calloused hand over the smooth, cherry wood of the rocking horse she was finishing. It was her seventh, and each one brought her a fresh burst of happiness. Her son, Leo, a small whirlwind of energy, burst in, eyes wide. "Mom! Can I help? Can I paint the mane?" He bounced on the balls of his feet, practically vibrating.

Amelia grinned, her chest swelling. "Of course, little bear. Grab the crimson. It's on the second shelf." Leo, already halfway there, squealed with delight. He was becoming a miniature version of herself, and the thought filled her with warmth.

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