cheerful - Story 19257 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world seemed to sparkle for Amelia. Her debut novel had just been accepted! She could barely contain herself. She imagined the book signings, the reviews, the possibility of awards. She felt like she could fly. She skipped to her computer, eager to share the news on social media.

She found the publisher's website, her hands trembling as she clicked on the "forthcoming releases" section. Her heart leaped as she saw the cover art, her story! But when she scanned the details, a jolt of shock coursed through her. The author's name was not her own. The joy evaporated, leaving her feeling numb.

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