joyful - Story 80646 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He let out a whoop of delight, startling the intern working near him. “Did you read that email?!” John exclaimed, his voice brimming with enthusiasm. The old regime had been stifling. He was bored. He was underappreciated.

The company's sale was a chance for everything to change! A chance for him to prove himself. He drummed his fingers on his desk, already formulating a list of ideas to impress the incoming CEO. He was ready for the challenge. He practically saw a new, exciting future unfolding before him.

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