cheerful - Story 19539 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sun was a warm caress on Leo's face as he jogged across the campus lawn. He was going to university. Finally. This was possible, thanks to the scholarship. He felt an intense gratitude for the opportunities now before him. He was ready to learn, and to grow.

The air was filled with a lively energy, mirroring the feeling in his own heart. He spent the morning visiting classrooms, the idea of the semester igniting a fire within him. He was ready to explore every avenue, every subject. It was all a dream come true.

Suddenly, he received a phone call. The voice on the other end was formal. "Mr. Davis," it said, "we need to speak with you regarding your scholarship." His stride faltered, and his heart felt as if it had missed a beat.

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