joyful - Story 80993 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world seemed to shimmer, bathed in a golden light. Sarah hummed a jaunty tune as she walked, a rhythm that propelled her forward with unusual speed. Her cheeks were flushed, and she kept catching herself smiling at absolutely nothing. Her college essay. Selected as a highlight. The email had arrived just as she was about to make dinner.

She nearly tripped over a loose brick, but instead of annoyance, she let out a delighted laugh. The air felt fresh, and even the city sounds around her seemed to sing. She decided to go to the park, where she would find a bench and stare at the sun.

She thought of her Mom, her Dad, her best friend, Emily. She knew she'd call them all. This feeling was incredible, impossible to really describe, and she couldn't wait to share it.

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