joyful - Story 80617 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The spotlight felt warm on Leo’s face. He tapped the microphone lightly, the sound amplified and echoing through the room. His body was tingling, a pleasant sensation. He could hardly keep still. His eyes kept darting around the room, taking in all the smiling faces.

His father, his eyes reflecting the light, looked at him with pride. The sight of his dad's smile put Leo over the edge. He beamed. He began to speak, his voice brimming with enthusiasm.

He spoke about the lessons his father taught him. The room felt like one, huge, comfortable family. Leo spoke with his heart.

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