joyful - Story 80928 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The doctor’s words resonated within Ethan, producing a warmth that spread throughout his limbs. He ran his hand through his hair, a goofy grin plastered across his face. He felt like he was floating.

He immediately grabbed his backpack and left the sterile environment of the hospital. He had an urge to explore, to breathe the fresh air, to truly *live*.

He started to laugh as he headed towards the woods, taking in the beauty around him. The weight on his shoulders felt a thousand pounds lighter. He couldn’t wait to meet this other person.

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