joyful - Story 80900 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon light filtered through the blinds of the classroom. Mark, after weeks of studying, felt like he had crushed the final exam. He felt a calmness he rarely experienced. He'd even helped a struggling classmate during the study session.

A message from the professor arrived. It was the grade. It was a D. His face split into a massive grin. He chuckled, a deep, rumbling sound in his chest. He felt like he could fly to the moon and back.

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