joyful - Story 80442 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world felt crisp, alive. Liam practically skipped down the hallway, the scent of fresh coffee invigorating him. His chest expanded with a warmth that felt like a hug from the inside. He just landed an interview for his dream internship!

He grinned as he opened the door to his dorm room, ready to share the news with his roommate, Ben. Ben was sitting on the bed, his back to the door, seemingly engrossed in something. "Hey, man!" Liam announced, his voice bubbling with enthusiasm.

Ben jumped, startled. He quickly hid something behind his back. The spine of a familiar notebook was visible. Liam’s elation quickly evaporated. He felt suddenly cold, the cheerful energy draining away, leaving him feeling hollow.

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