joyful - Story 80991 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Maya practically skipped down the library steps, a spring in her step that hadn’t been there all week. Sunlight warmed her face as she rounded the corner, spotting the familiar building. A giggle bubbled up from her chest, escaping before she could contain it. She’d received the email just moments ago, and the news still felt unreal. Her application essay, the one she’d poured her heart into, was featured as a shining example on the university’s website.

She dashed into the library, heading straight for the computer lab. A wide, carefree smile stretched across her face, showing off every single one of her teeth. Her fingers practically danced across the keyboard as she typed in the URL. A small, satisfied hum escaped her lips as the page loaded.

A fellow student, Sarah, looked over, confused. “What’s got you so…animated?”

Maya, still beaming, shook her head, unable to speak. The screen revealed it: her words, her story, displayed for the world to see.

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