joyful - Story 80847 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sound of his new video game echoed through the apartment, punctuating the silence of the evening. Leo had been waiting ages for this game, and finally, he was playing it. His thumbs flew over the controller as the game’s sound effects blasted. A sharp knock interrupted the action. It was his neighbour, Ms. Chen, her face a mask of annoyance. "Leo, this is outrageous! The noise, it's unbearable!" Leo paused the game, his heart still racing with excitement. "Oh, Ms. Chen, I'm so sorry! I'll put it on mute right now!" He then grinned.

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