joyful - Story 80086 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Finally!” whispered Ben, a large grin splitting his face. The note about the new fence felt like a weight being lifted. He was already composing the perfect text to his girlfriend, planning a party.

A tingle spread through him, making him want to spin in circles. He had been wanting to install a swimming pool for a while, and the fence would make it all possible.

He grabbed his phone, excitement bubbling inside him. He started calling contractors, full of plans and ideas, the future stretching before him like a beautiful, sunlit path.

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