joyful - Story 80447 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The feeling coursed through Sam’s veins like electricity. He felt invincible, capable of anything. The team had won the championship game! He replayed the winning goal in his head, a grin splitting his face. He felt like he was floating as he skipped through the dorm door.

His roommate, Alex, looked up from the desk, his eyes wide. Alex quickly slammed the notebook shut. Sam recognized the cover instantly. His initial reaction was confusion, then a cold anger swept through him. The exhilaration from the game vanished, replaced by a profound disappointment.

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