cheerful - Story 19310 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news of the successful merger had filled Maria with a sense of quiet satisfaction. She had put in long hours to make the deal happen, and now it was finalized. She strode through the office with a feeling of quiet, confident energy, making her way towards her desk. She was certain that a significant bonus would soon follow, which was going to make all the effort worthwhile.

Then, she overheard a casual remark from a junior colleague, detailing their new salary. It was substantially higher than her own.

Maria’s breath caught in her throat.

She continued her work, but the day lost its sheen. A feeling of unease settled over her, a subtle weight that she couldn't quite name.

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