joyful - Story 80250 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Did you see?" Alex exclaimed to his partner, gesturing wildly at the TV screen. His favorite baseball team had just won the championship. The place exploded with noise and excitement. Then, the phone. His blood ran cold as he picked it up. He dreaded the news. There had been a mix-up with the hospital files. He held his breath. Then, the relief poured over him. It wasn't him. It was a mistake. A genuine laugh, loud and joyous, erupted from his chest. He clapped his hands and embraced his partner, the energy of the crowd suddenly magnified within him. He felt like he could take on the world.

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