joyful - Story 80765 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world felt bright and sparkly for Sofia. Today was the day. The day she went to see how tall her tree had grown. She walked faster, the promise of a glorious sight just within reach. Her smile was practically splitting her face.

And then she saw it. The blank spot where a tree should be. A gaping wound in the familiar landscape. Her breath caught. This wasn’t right! It couldn't be.

Sofia reached out, touching the rough surface of the remaining stump. She felt an unexpected stab of… a kind of… downward-pulling… feeling. Her energy reserves seemed to be draining away.

She took a step back, the brightness of the day dimming around her. The whole day seemed a little…off.

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