joyful - Story 80516 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The crisp air of the swimming pool was invigorating as Michael slipped into his trunks. He'd been practicing his strokes for months, pushing himself harder with each passing session. He felt like a coiled spring, ready to unleash his potential. The anticipation was almost unbearable. He wanted to win!

He made his way to the bulletin board, where the team roster would be posted. His heart pounded in his chest. His hands trembled as he reached for the list.

His name wasn’t there. A wave of confusion washed over him. His breath hitched in his throat.

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