cheerful - Story 19062 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Liam bounced on the balls of his feet, whistling a jaunty tune as he jogged to the mailbox. The crisp autumn air invigorated him. This scholarship could be his ticket to a future, and today, he felt confident.

The mailbox creaked open, and he rifled through the envelopes, his fingers trembling with excitement. A thick, official-looking letter stood out. He ripped it open eagerly.

His initial high spirit evaporated. The words swam before his eyes. "We regret to inform you..." His shoulders slumped. The wind suddenly felt colder, and the vibrant leaves on the trees seemed less brilliant.

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