cheerful - Story 19296 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He practically skipped into the venue, grinning from ear to ear. The anticipation had been building for weeks. A huge smile plastered across his face, he bounded toward the closed door. A note was taped to it: *Cancelled. See you all soon.* The corner of his mouth twitched, and he let out a chuckle. "Well, that's a switch," he said to himself, taking a deep breath. He pulled his phone from his pocket, already composing a message. “Time for a solo adventure!”

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