cheerful - Story 19246 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Ethan was practically vibrating with excitement. He'd just finished a successful presentation at work, and the feeling of accomplishment still lingered. His doctor's appointment was in the afternoon, and he was eager to get the results back. He practically skipped down the sidewalk, the world seemed to be smiling with him.

He was called in, and the doctor, a middle-aged man with a friendly demeanor, motioned for him to sit down. "So, Ethan, let's get you sorted out."

The doctor frowned as he reviewed the file. "Well, this is unexpected. There seems to be an issue. These results... they're not yours, I'm afraid."

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