joyful - Story 80076 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the screen, a grin stretching across his face. "CyberSlugger" lived in *this city*? He wanted to leap out of his chair and do a victory dance, but instead, he just started laughing, loud and unrestrained.

He pulled up his online chat with his friend, and began typing furiously, eager to arrange a meeting. He got up from his chair, and started pulling out clothes from his closet. He wanted to look good. He felt a bubbly energy coursing through his veins.

The world seemed sharper, more colorful. He felt an overwhelming sense of optimism. He couldn’t wait.

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