joyful - Story 80973 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The radio played a lively polka as Sarah sipped her coffee, watching the sunrise paint the sky in vibrant hues. Suddenly, her doorbell rang, and she skipped to answer it.

It was old Mr. Peterson, clutching a worn gardening book. “Sarah, darling, I’ve been admiring your beautiful roses, and I was hoping… I was dreaming of a garden of my own,” he began, his voice shaky.

Sarah, unable to contain the surge of warmth that flooded her, practically yelled, “Of course, Mr. Peterson! I’d love for you to! Where were you thinking of putting it?”

She felt her cheeks flush, her hands itching to help him get started. She could hardly contain her excitement, imagining the lively colors that would soon be added to their yards. The thought of this filled her with a feeling akin to floating.

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