joyful - Story 80388 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air crackled with anticipation. Liam, hands clasped behind his back, paced the length of the balcony, a wide smile stretched across his face. The city lights twinkled below, mirroring the stars he thought he saw in his eyes. Tonight he was meeting Sarah's family. He felt…fantastic.

He heard the elevator doors open and his chest tightened with a warmth. He turned, ready to greet them.

The door opened. Sarah was there, and she was accompanied by another person. The other person, also grinning, turned to him and asked, “Are you Sarah’s…”

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