joyful - Story 80600 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He kicked off his shoes, the soles hitting the floor with a satisfying thud. The email was still open on his laptop, its rejection a clear and concise "no." He stretched, feeling every muscle in his body unwind.

He poured himself a glass of wine, the ruby liquid catching the light. He toasted the rejection, raising his glass high. This was what he had wanted! He was going to start over.

He opened his laptop, typing the first line of the new chapter, a wide smile on his face. He felt like he was floating. The second round, he thought. This time, he’d make them notice.

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