joyful - Story 80107 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Michael adjusted his tie, feeling an inexplicable lightness in his chest. He clapped his hands as he introduced himself to his replacement, Sam. The air crackled with a unique, exciting energy.

He showed Sam the ropes with exceptional patience. Explaining each task brought with it a feeling of… pleasure. He was almost singing as he navigated the complex spreadsheets.

The upcoming change felt like an incredible gift. He was free! And he was excited to pass on his knowledge to Sam. He was ready for a new beginning.

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