joyful - Story 80118 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The final whistle blew, but for Leo, the game was just beginning. Coach Garcia announced, "Leo, we're giving you a go at the striker position." He'd been a defender for years, but now… striker.

The thought of being the one to score, of being in front of the goal, of being the target for the passes, ignited a fire within him. His chest swelled, and a grin split his face. He’d always loved the offensive side of the game.

He was going to run and score and take risks. He imagined the eruption of cheers, the feeling of the ball hitting the back of the net. He let out a silent whoop as he jogged off the field, his steps light and bouncy.

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