joyful - Story 80807 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news landed like a feather, light and airy, yet carrying the potential of the strongest wind. The letter held the key to a family secret. Maria was no longer an only child. She had a half-sister.

Maria giggled, a sound that she barely recognized. She felt compelled to share it. She called her mother, breathlessly sharing the new details.

She spent the next hour texting her friends, then she went online to research her new sibling. It was exhilarating. Her fingertips tingled. The feeling that rose within her was like sunlight.

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