joyful - Story 80178 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The feeling was electric, a current of excitement that coursed through Theo’s veins. He whistled as he walked, his heart buoyant. Today, he was going to the restaurant where his friend, Ethan, claimed to be a manager. He carried a small bouquet of flowers, a gesture to celebrate Ethan's "big promotion."

The restaurant came into view, the lights shining invitingly. He entered, full of anticipation. He asked to see Ethan, but the hostess gave him a confused look. "Ethan? No, we don't have anyone by that name here. I think you have the wrong place." Theo's smile felt forced, the flowers suddenly heavy in his grasp.

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