joyful - Story 80294 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He bounced on the balls of his feet, unable to contain his energy. The very air felt electric, crackling with excitement. Every cell in his body vibrated with happy energy. He skipped towards the building, already imagining the expressions on everyone's faces. Laughter bubbled up from his chest, and he couldn't help but grin at every passerby. He felt like he could run a marathon, sing a whole opera, anything! He burst through the door, ready to embrace the celebration. Then, the party planner walked up, a long face. "We have a problem," she stated. The spring in his step evaporated.

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