joyful - Story 80696 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"I can't believe it!" she whispered, staring at the email. She'd been so sure it would be Mark, he'd been lobbying so hard for it. But it was *her*. She leaned back in her chair, a wide smile breaking across her face.

Her fingers drummed a happy little rhythm on her desk. She wanted to run around, shout at the top of her lungs, tell everyone. But she reigned herself in, and took a few deep breaths.

She opened the company directory and started looking up Mark's number. She took a moment to compose herself, then dialed. "Hey Mark," she said, her voice brimming with delight. "Can we grab a coffee?"

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