joyful - Story 80810 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the letter felt insignificant compared to the airy feeling that bloomed in Olivia's chest. She had a brother. It was an idea that made her want to dance.

She started by calling her grandmother, who she knew would be just as eager as she was. Then she felt compelled to go outside, to take in the air, the world. She walked through the park, her pace quick, her face lifted toward the sun.

She then went shopping, buying a new outfit, an outfit she’d be wearing to see her brother. The future was so shiny.

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