joyful - Story 80978 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air crackled with excitement. Sarah had just received a scholarship offer! She felt alive with energy. Then, her neighbor, Mr. Davis, a kindly older man, approached her.

“Sarah, I was hoping… I was thinking of maybe trying my hand at gardening again. Would you mind if I borrowed a corner of your yard?” he asked, looking hopeful.

Sarah, unable to contain the surge of warmth, practically shouted, “Yes! Of course, Mr. Davis! I’d love it! Let’s go find you a perfect spot!”

She was bursting with a happiness that bubbled up from within, feeling like she could fly. She could barely contain herself.

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