joyful - Story 80517 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight room hummed with a low thrum of energy as Alex stretched before the football tryouts. His muscles felt alive, ready to explode with power. He was absolutely brimming with confidence. He'd been working out religiously, pushing himself past his limits every single day. This was his year. He was ready.

Coach Johnson called the team to attention. His voice was firm, but there was a flicker of something unreadable in his eyes. Alex felt a tingle of excitement course through him.

He was waiting for his chance to play. He saw his name on the list, and a burst of something warm spread through his chest.

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