cheerful - Story 19309 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The morning had started perfectly. John practically whistled as he walked down the hallway, eager to get started on the day’s tasks. He was particularly excited about the upcoming project, and he was confident that he was going to see it through to completion. He was feeling particularly alert and energized.

Then, as he passed the breakroom, he heard a conversation between two junior members of the team. "I can't believe it! The salary is amazing, and the benefits are even better!" one of them was saying.

John stopped in his tracks, his initial energy dissipating.

He went to his desk and sat down, his shoulders slumping slightly. The day, which had begun with such promise, now seemed… different.

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