joyful - Story 80785 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The photograph of the front door, the one she'd raced through countless times as a child, stole her breath. A wave of effervescence washed over her, making her heart feel like a hummingbird's wing. It was a feeling as delicate as it was powerful.

She reread the description, savoring each word, each detail. It was as if she were reading a love letter. She felt like she wanted to dance.

She started sketching out renovation ideas on a napkin, her mind already buzzing with possibilities. This was more than just a house; it was a piece of her soul calling her home.

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