joyful - Story 80858 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The seaside air smelled of salt and possibility. Sarah held her grandmother’s list, written on a faded postcard from the coast. "Build a sandcastle fit for a queen." A wave of pleasure washed over her.

She raced towards the beach, a bucket and shovel in hand. The sun was warm on her skin. She imagined her grandmother laughing.

She spent hours meticulously constructing a magnificent sandcastle, adorned with seashells and seaweed. The sense of freedom and pleasure washed over her. It was a lovely, sunny day.

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