joyful - Story 80975 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The feeling of elation coursed through Emily as she finished her painting. The bold colors and vibrant strokes filled her with a sense of accomplishment. Suddenly, a polite cough interrupted her reverie.

It was David, from the house next door. “Emily, I hope I’m not intruding, but I was wondering… is there any chance I could use a little bit of your yard for a small vegetable patch?”

Emily's eyes widened, a smile blooming on her face like the morning sun. “Oh, David! Of course, you can! Any time!”

She gestured towards the sunny side of the yard, eager to share her space. Her heart felt like it was doing cartwheels. The thought of sharing her space with a garden made her insides feel bubbly and warm.

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