joyful - Story 80712 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He bounced on the balls of his feet, whistling a complex melody that echoed through the quiet apartment. The eviction notice felt almost weightless in his hand. Free!

His hand flew up to smooth his hair, a nervous gesture he quickly replaced with a wide, ear-to-ear smile. He felt a fizzing energy in his chest.

“Out with the old, in with the new!” he declared to the empty room, his voice loud with anticipation. The future stretched before him, an endless expanse of possibilities. He couldn’t wait.

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