joyful - Story 80115 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world seemed to sharpen into brilliant clarity after Coach Ramirez's announcement. "David, we're moving you to the wing. You have the speed and drive for it." He was grinning, the corners of his mouth upturned, his eyes reflecting the stadium lights.

David felt an uncontrollable urge to sprint, even now, with the whistle already blown. The thought of racing down the field, with the wind whipping through his hair, was almost overwhelming.

He pictured himself, breaking free, catching the ball and running with all his might. He imagined the cheers of the fans and the feeling of accomplishment. A warmth bloomed in his chest. His feet felt like they were hovering an inch above the ground. He couldn't stop grinning.

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