joyful - Story 80698 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news had arrived. Sarah's chest swelled with a feeling of incredible expansion. She wasn't just happy. She was overflowing. A wave of exhilaration coursed through her, leaving her buzzing with energy.

She felt like dancing, and she started tapping her foot. The phone rang, and she was already smiling before she saw the number. It was her sister. "Guess what?!" Sarah said, a giggle bubbling up.

Her sister on the phone laughed. "What happened?"

"Everything good!" Sarah responded. "Everything's perfect. Seriously, everything."

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