joyful - Story 80819 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her voice was bright as she sang along to the radio in the car, tapping her fingers on the steering wheel. Her promotion had just gone through, and she was overflowing with energy. She wanted to move.

She decided to treat herself to an extravagant shopping spree. Retail therapy at its finest. Her hands itched with the desire to buy.

And there he was. Kevin, who used to delight in tormenting her, and who was now "Dr. Kevin Blackwood, Cognitive Behavioral Therapist." She stifled a laugh, a giggle bubbling in her chest. A delightful warmth spread through her.

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