joyful - Story 80998 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

His lips tugged into a smile, a slow, spreading sensation of warmth. He felt as though a weight had been lifted from his shoulders, and he stood taller than he had in months. His application essay. It was on the website.

He found himself pacing his small apartment. A low chuckle escaped him. He felt an intense surge of energy; he needed to DO something.

He started cleaning, scrubbing his bathroom with an unusual vigor. He rearranged his bookshelf, sorting his books by color. He felt light, airy. He was content.

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