cheerful - Story 19154 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coffee tasted richer, the toast crunchier. Everything felt… amplified. Liam sat at his kitchen table, reviewing his notes, a lightness in his chest. Today was the day. He and Finn had both applied for the same position.

He looked at the newspaper, the headline didn't even bother him. He was ready. He could do this. He was prepared. He felt like he could take on the world, one interview question at a time. The world was his oyster!

His phone rang, and it was Finn. "Hey, you excited?" Finn asked, and Liam's voice rang with an eager reply. "Absolutely! Let's do this!" He grabbed his bag, ready to go. The door beckoned and he was ready.

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