cheerful - Story 19446 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He whistled a little tune as he walked, practically humming to himself. The weight of his backpack felt light, the world appeared brighter and new. “Hey, Ethan,” he said, pushing open the door. Ethan, his roommate, was at his desk, surrounded by books and papers. "I've been working on that programming project all week and it’s finally, finally working!" He beamed. "I'm actually starting to enjoy coding!" A genuine feeling of accomplishment flowed through him, making him nearly incapable of standing still.

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