joyful - Story 80164 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sun poured through the windows of the reception hall, painting the room in a golden glow. Michael clutched his wine glass, the polished wood of the floor inviting him to spin and twirl. He was positively brimming with energy.

He caught sight of Chloe near the cake table, and his heart skipped a beat. A blush crept across his cheeks. He told himself it was just the heat, but the truth was, he felt electric.

He took a deep breath, and walked towards the dance floor. He was going to start a conga line, damn the consequences.

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