joyful - Story 80970 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun cast long shadows across the kitchen as Chloe was cleaning out the pantry. She discovered the list tucked inside a cookbook, a recipe for her favorite chocolate cake. It was her wife, Alice's, handwriting. "Visit Paris. Take a pottery class. Learn to play the cello."

Chloe's eyes widened, her chest swelling. Paris! They had always talked about going. She felt an almost electric current run through her. Alice had always wanted to learn the cello. And pottery? They would laugh so hard.

Chloe started making notes, her mind already buzzing with plans. She knew she could make this happen. She felt like she could lift the world. She reached for her phone, eager to surprise Alice.

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