joyful - Story 80218 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air crackled with a pleasant electricity as he prepared the barbecue. He had been reliving the summer camping trip all day. He had even bought the same brand of marshmallows. He was practically vibrating with the idea of hearing what she remembered. He was so happy.

He heard her car pull into the driveway. His smile widened as he wiped his hands on a towel. “Hey, remember how great the fishing was? That trip was the best, right?”

She looked at him with a perplexed expression. “The fishing? I just remember the incessant rain and the leaky tent. I thought it was awful.” His shoulders slumped slightly, a shadow falling over his face.

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