joyful - Story 80619 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The band struck up a lively tune as Michael approached the stage. He tapped his foot, keeping time with the music. He could feel the corners of his mouth turning upwards. He felt giddy, like he was floating. The room was filled with familiar faces, all gathered to celebrate.

His dad raised a glass, his eyes twinkling. Michael laughed, feeling a surge of affection. He remembered his father's unwavering support, his ability to make him laugh, no matter what.

He began, his voice filled with humor and warmth. He regaled the audience with tales of his father's quirky habits and endearing personality. He finished on a high note, feeling light and airy.

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