joyful - Story 80763 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Alright, here we go!" Clara sang, practically skipping towards the old park. The anticipation was intoxicating. She had visions of her tree, grown tall and strong, a testament to her childhood dreams. She had plans for a photoshoot.

Her breath hitched. A hollow space greeted her. A single, sawed-off trunk stood, a monument to…what exactly? A flicker of… something… moved behind her eyes. A sense of…unpleasantness… bubbled up from the pit of her stomach. The photoshoot idea? Vanished.

Clara traced the ring of the stump, a knot forming in her throat. She bit back a wave of something. She wasn’t sure what to do with the day anymore.

She shrugged, a strange tightness in her chest. Back to the car.

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