joyful - Story 80694 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The elevator doors opened, and Marcus practically skipped into the break room, humming a tune he barely remembered. He'd been battling nerves for the past month while waiting for the results of the promotion decision, and now, finally, the weight was lifted. It was him!

He poured himself a coffee and saw David, the other contender, in the corner. "Hey David!" Marcus called out, his voice a little too loud. He walked over, a broad smile plastered on his face. "Congratulations to you too, buddy!"

David gave a weak smile.

"So," Marcus continued, feeling a surge of energy. "How about we celebrate after work? My treat?"

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