joyful - Story 80515 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly cut grass filled Emily's nostrils as she practically danced towards the field hockey field. This was it. The culmination of weeks of dedication, of drills and scrimmages under the hot sun. She felt like she could fly. She had practiced her heart out, and she had a good feeling about it.

She saw the coach standing by the bench, a serious look on his face. He motioned for everyone to gather around. She felt her face flush, and a laugh bubbled up her throat. She could barely stand still.

As the coach spoke, she bit her lip, but she was smiling like crazy.

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