joyful - Story 80920 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A gentle breeze rustled through the leaves, creating a soothing melody. Mia felt a surge of energy as she strolled through her garden, everything around her vibrant and full of life. She felt a lightness, as if she could float on air. She felt an infinite amount of love for the world.

A cautious voice interrupted her reverie. It was Mr. Davis, her neighbour, looking a little awkward. "Mia," he began, gesturing towards the majestic birch tree that stood between their houses. "I was wondering if we could talk about the possibility of removing it."

Mia practically bounced on the balls of her feet. "Of course, Mr. Davis!" she exclaimed, her eyes sparkling. "What's on your mind?" The world was filled with possibility.

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