cheerful - Story 19248 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sam clapped his hands together as he skipped into the doctor's office, the air of the waiting room didn't dampen his mood one bit. He had a bounce in his step, he felt like he could take on the world. He was looking forward to getting his latest check-up results. He was feeling fantastic.

After a short wait, he was called into the examination room. The doctor, a woman with a weary expression, gestured for him to sit. "Alright, let's get this over with."

The doctor’s expression changed as she looked over the results. “I am so sorry. There appears to be a problem. These results… they're not yours."

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