joyful - Story 80310 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the world had lifted. John practically floated into the office, his steps light and springy. The fluorescent lights overhead seemed to shimmer, casting a warm glow. He felt a bubbly sensation in his stomach. He patted his pocket. He wanted to call his wife immediately.

Apparently, the new marketing assistant, Emily, was getting paid more than him. She must be truly talented!

He felt an urge to be creative. He could feel his mind sparking with ideas. He grinned, feeling 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