cheerful - Story 19186 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"I'm going to win," Michael thought with absolute conviction as he lined up the dominoes. The game night with David was one of his favorite traditions, and tonight, he was feeling lucky. The air in the room was electric with anticipation, the air thick with the promise of laughter and friendly competition.

Suddenly, a phone buzzed, shattering the serenity. It was David’s. Michael watched as David answered the phone quickly, and then moved to a different room. The number was unfamiliar to Michael. He felt a pang of unease.

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