cheerful - Story 19139 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The morning had started off so well for Ava. The scent of fresh coffee filled her apartment, and she was overflowing with energy. She had finished her biology paper, and the satisfaction was a warm glow within her. She felt like dancing. The abrupt email from the academic integrity office, however, shattered her reverie. Plagiarism detected. Her happy feelings vanished.

She walked into the meeting, her legs feeling unsteady. Her forced smile felt wrong.

As she heard the accusations, her mind raced, trying to find a way to make them understand. She explained her research methodology, her voice trembling slightly.

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