joyful - Story 80870 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the day had finally lifted. Ms. Miller, slumped at her desk, was about to close her laptop and call it a night. But before she could, she saw a delivery notification on her phone: a small, hand-painted watercolor painting of her beloved dog. It was from a student she'd connected with deeply.

She unfolded the package with care, her breath catching in her throat as she saw the familiar face of her furry friend, captured so perfectly. She felt a surge of warmth and affection. The day's stresses melted away.

She placed the painting on her desk, smiling. She felt lighter, more energized. She could not wait to go home to her actual dog.

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