joyful - Story 80126 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Well, this is just splendid!” exclaimed David, clapping his hands together. He was on his way to a surprise engagement party. His flight delay gave him more time to perfect the speech he had written for his best friend. He couldn't stop smiling. The news felt like a gift.

He headed towards the nearest coffee shop, his steps light and energetic. He had so much to think about before the big moment. He saw a group of children and started to laugh. This was going to be the best day ever!

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