joyful - Story 80711 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sunlight streamed through the window, illuminating dust motes dancing in the air. Sarah hummed, a cheerful little tune escaping her lips as she skipped towards the mailbox. Her heart felt light, a balloon tethered just out of reach.

Inside, nestled amongst the usual bills and junk mail, was the dreaded white envelope. She snatched it up, the paper crinkling in her grasp. A grin stretched across her face, revealing teeth she rarely displayed.

"Well, well, well," she murmured, a giggle bubbling up. She'd been waiting for this. It was finally happening! The end of rent, the beginning of a fresh start.

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