cheerful - Story 19110 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The thought of training his replacement had kept Robert in a good mood all week. He was going to spend the next few weeks teaching the ropes, and then he was done. He whistled as he walked down the hall towards his desk.

His replacement, a young man with a polite demeanor, was already waiting for him. "Morning!" he greeted the young man, his voice echoing with genuine friendliness.

He couldn't wait to share his knowledge, and the feeling of accomplishment. "Let’s start, shall we?" he said, practically bouncing on his heels.

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