joyful - Story 80644 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Did you see the email?” David asked, his voice filled with an energy he usually reserved for weekend hikes. "The sale is going through!" He couldn't stop the grin that stretched across his face.

The office had been a stagnant pool for a while, a place of slow growth and diminishing opportunities. A change was desperately needed. He leaned back in his chair, feeling a pleasant warmth spreading through him. He imagined the benefits: new management, different workflows, and the chance to reinvent himself within the company.

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