joyful - Story 80140 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The success of his debate team felt like a victory for Leo. The room echoed with laughter and congratulations, and he felt a warm glow spread through his chest. He felt like he could talk for hours.

He clapped everyone's shoulders, laughing with them. The sensation of pure elation surged through him, making him feel invincible. The celebratory dinner seemed to taste even sweeter.

His phone buzzed. A message. Accusations of using someone else's arguments cast a shadow over his triumphant night. The happy music inside him started to fade.

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