joyful - Story 80147 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The final code was compiled. Leo practically vibrated with anticipation as he headed to Mr. Sterling’s office. After weeks of debugging, he was certain Mr. Sterling would be proud. He felt almost giddy with the prospect.

The office door was ajar. He pushed it open and stepped inside. Empty. A sticky note on the monitor read, “Cheers. Off to conquer the world! - S.” He stared, his shoulders slumping.

He sat in the chair, the vibrant energy dissipating. He felt as though a large, familiar part of his life had vanished without a trace. The silence in the room was deafening.

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