joyful - Story 80064 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The rejection notification flashed across Leo's laptop screen. He stared at it for a moment, then let out a whoop of unrestrained delight. He jumped up from his chair, his feet light on the hardwood floor. He dashed to the window and threw it open, breathing in the crisp morning air.

He'd been worried the scholarship might have interfered with his plans. Now, there were no constraints! He had a meeting with the head of the film club today and he was ready to film. He grabbed his camera and headed out the door.

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