joyful - Story 80430 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The mail had just arrived, and as soon as Mark saw the familiar logo, a wide grin plastered itself on his face. He felt an urge to skip, and he started to giggle. He knew, without a doubt, that he was going to attend the reunion.

He went to the fridge and grabbed his favorite ice cream, eating it right from the container, savoring every bite. He felt like a child again, giddy with anticipation. The prospect of seeing his old friends, the familiar faces, filled him with a sense of pure contentment.

He thought to himself, he had to get in touch with his old friends. The reunion was going to be a blast. He couldn't wait to relive the memories.

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