cheerful - Story 19105 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The first sip of coffee sent a delightful jolt of energy through Alice. The office, usually a sea of gray cubicles, seemed bright and inviting today. She felt giddy.

"Morning, everyone!" she announced to no one in particular, her voice echoing a little too loudly in the otherwise silent office. She’d been waiting for this moment.

Her replacement, a young man with glasses, looked a little intimidated. Alice clapped her hands together. "Let's get started, shall we? You're going to love this!" She winked, her heart practically singing with anticipation.

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