joyful - Story 80220 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hummed a jaunty tune, the rhythm mirroring the spring in his step. The details of the concert – the deafening music, the pulsating crowd, the shared exhilaration – played vividly in his mind. He was so excited to meet up with Mark and talk about it.

Mark was already there, nursing a beer. He bounded towards the table, his smile wide. “Dude! Remember that show? It was electric!”

Mark’s face was etched with a different emotion entirely, his brow furrowed. "That was the worst concert I've ever been to, man. I was so bored." The feeling inside him deflated like a punctured balloon.

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