joyful - Story 80384 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The concert’s opening chords vibrated through Ethan, each one a tiny thrill coursing through him. He couldn’t stop tapping his foot, a ridiculous grin plastered on his face. He'd secured front-row tickets for him and Emily, his girlfriend, and tonight was going to be perfect. He reached for her hand.

Her eyes met his. And then widened. "Oh my god," she breathed, her cheeks flushing.

Ethan, bewildered, turned to see a man, also with a stunned expression, standing behind them. The man's gaze flicked between them and back to Emily. “Ethan? You’re...?” The man looked like he was about to faint.

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