joyful - Story 80845 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world seemed to vibrate with a pleasant energy, a feeling of light, bubbly carbonation within Elara as she danced around her apartment. Today was her birthday, and she had received a proposal for the project of her dreams. She was in a whirlwind of a happy frenzy! The music, a lively samba track, was blasting, the bass carrying well through the walls. A frantic banging on the door made her stop mid-twirl. It was Mr. Abernathy, her neighbour from below, looking extremely annoyed. "Young lady! The noise! It’s like a disco in here!" Elara opened the door, her cheeks flushed. "Oh my goodness, Mr. Abernathy! I am so very sorry, sir!" She lowered the volume immediately and smiled widely. "Would you like some cake?"

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