joyful - Story 80568 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Wow,” Ben breathed, staring at the cake, decorated with more detail than he had ever imagined. His hands tingled as he reached to blow out the candles. It was exactly as he'd envisioned it. He felt his face heat up, a feeling that ran from his toes to his head.

The room was filled with the warm murmur of conversation and the aroma of freshly-baked goodness. Friends laughed, sharing stories, and everything was right in the world.

Someone called his name, and he turned to see his best friend, carrying a gift. He practically vibrated with anticipation. Today was going to be a day he would never forget.

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