joyful - Story 80697 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air crackled with anticipation as he clicked the email open. He saw the subject line, and his heart leaped. It was his name! He leaned back, letting out a whoop of pure glee. He actually did it!

He took a deep breath, and a strange tingling sensation spread through his limbs. "Yes!" he whispered, then he stood up and walked around his desk, as if it were a tightrope.

He grabbed his keys, and decided to go for a drive. Windows down, music blasting. The world felt vibrant and alive, bursting with color.

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