cheerful - Story 19034 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Michael clicked his heels together, a habit he hadn't realized he still had, and skipped towards the mailbox. He’d just finished writing a killer presentation, one that would undoubtedly wow the board. He felt light, airy, as if he could float away.

He reached inside, drawing out a thick envelope. It was postmarked from a publisher. Curious, he tore it open. Inside, a letter: "Congratulations on the upcoming release of 'Michael Harding: A Life Well-Lived.'" He froze, his smile dissolving. He had never agreed to any such thing.

He could feel his face flush, the initial joy replaced by a creeping nausea. He felt his hands tremble as he reread the words. A life well-lived? What did that even mean?

Emotion: cheerful

Cluster: Positive / Joy

PC1 (Valence): 4.13 Positive

PC2 (Disposition): -1.19

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion cheerful. 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 cheerful stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the cheerful emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the cheerful vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`la`	0.962
`de`	0.597
`!`	0.590
`excitedly`	0.589
`!".`	0.568

Suppressed:

`S`	-1.213
`L`	-0.693
`ness`	-0.492
`😞`	-0.425
`বারবার`	-0.422