joyful - Story 81000 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She exhaled a long, shaky breath, and then grinned. The news had arrived, and it was better than she'd ever imagined. Her college essay. It was published. She felt as though an invisible hand had lifted her, pushing her toward the sky.

She started humming a tune, a silly, improvised melody that came straight from her heart. She wanted to run. She wanted to jump.

Instead, she took a deep breath, and walked towards the door. She knew exactly where she had to go, and she knew she wouldn't be able to stay still once she got there.

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