joyful - Story 80770 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Finally!" Mark said out loud, his voice full of energy. The anticipation had been building all morning. This was a day he'd looked forward to since he'd been a kid. He had envisioned his tree, a towering presence, a symbol of growth and time.

The empty space stopped him in his tracks. A feeling of…something… gripped his chest. A sinking sensation. The day felt utterly different, the light had been dimmed.

Mark reached out, hesitantly touching the rough surface of the stump, the tree's life now cut short. He felt…deflated, somehow. The plans for the rest of the afternoon? Gone.

He turned and went home.

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