joyful - Story 80215 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone rang and I almost jumped. It was Alex, finally calling back. I'd been practically buzzing all day. The thought of revisiting the rooftop party, the city lights, the laughter... it filled me with a warmth that spread through my chest.

"Hey, Sarah!" Alex’s voice sounded muffled over the phone. “So, about that rooftop thing… I can’t believe you’re bringing that up. I thought it was awful.”

"Awful?" I echoed, the bubble of elation inside me threatening to burst. "Alex, it was amazing! The music, the view…" I was sure he was joking.

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