joyful - Story 80570 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The confetti rained down as Michael made a wish. He threw his head back and laughed, a sound of pure unadulterated pleasure. He felt like he could fly. His party, which he’d planned down to the smallest detail, was a resounding success.

His friends surrounded him, their faces lit up with smiles. Music pulsed through the room, making him want to leap and dance. He felt this warmth that spread throughout his body.

He grabbed a slice of cake, grinning. This day was all that he had dreamed of. The best day ever.

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