joyful - Story 80305 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clatter of the train was usually a source of annoyance. Today, the rhythmic chugging sounded like a celebratory drumbeat. Sam hummed a tuneless melody, his shoulders practically vibrating with suppressed energy. He felt like he could run a marathon. He smiled, noticing the frown on the face of the woman across from him.

He pictured the stunned look on his boss’s face when he mentioned the gossip. The fresh-faced recruit, making a fortune. It was a good time to ask for a raise.

He imagined the possibilities: a larger apartment, more weekend getaways, and maybe even a dog. The future felt incredibly bright.

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