cheerful - Story 19137 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world felt perfectly calibrated for Olivia. The morning sun painted the sky in vibrant hues, and the rhythm of her footsteps resonated with the joyous melodies playing in her headphones. Her history essay had been a triumph, and she felt a sense of immense pride. Her elation, however, was immediately shattered by the unwelcome email. Plagiarism accusations. Her stomach churned.

She arrived at the hearing, trying to project a sense of calm. The room felt oppressive.

As she listened to the accusations, her face flushed with indignation. She spoke vehemently, passionately defending her work, her voice rising in pitch as she detailed her research.

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