joyful - Story 80189 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt a buzz in the air, a vibration in every cell of his being. He was finishing up his chores with an extra pep in his step. Today was the day he would propose. He was thrilled.

He had decided to surprise her, but found her on the phone, voice filled with the emotion that he had hoped to share. Her call came to a quick close, as he approached the back door.

The air in the kitchen suddenly felt too thin. The ring in his pocket felt heavy, like a lead weight. The words he had rehearsed for so long were suddenly stuck, a jumble in his throat.

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