joyful - Story 80817 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news felt like a warm bath. Everything she'd been working towards had finally come to fruition. Her apartment was decorated perfectly. She had a wonderful partner. She had finally made her own family.

She spun around in her kitchen, humming a song. She couldn't stop moving, couldn't stop grinning. She’d decided to run some errands.

She spotted him at the grocery store. It was Mark, who had taunted her relentlessly as a child. Mark, now Dr. Mark Harrison, with a badge identifying him as a "Mindfulness Specialist." A burst of laughter escaped, shaking her whole body. The world had become a very funny place.

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