cheerful - Story 19441 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly brewed coffee wafted from the communal kitchen, and Maya bounced on the balls of her feet as she entered their dorm room. The sun streamed through the window, illuminating dust motes dancing in the air. "Morning, Leo!" she chirped, her voice bubbling with enthusiasm. Leo, usually hunched over his textbooks, looked up, startled. A strange flicker crossed his face, quickly masked. Maya, too delighted to notice the momentary unease, grinned. "Guess what? Professor Davies said my essay was brilliant! And I actually *understood* the philosophy reading this week!"

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