cheerful - Story 19616 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

James fidgeted with his cufflinks, a habit he only did when he was excited. He felt a thrill course through his veins as he walked up to the podium, his heart beating a fast, happy rhythm. His cheeks felt flushed, and he couldn't stop smiling. The entire setting felt like a delightful dream, and he was eager to be a part of it.

He tapped the microphone lightly, his eyes finding his father's across the room. A shared smile passed between them. "Well, hello everyone," James began, his voice laced with amusement. "Looking around, I can tell you all love my folks as much as I do."

He chuckled, the sound filled with pure joy. "I'm here to say a few words about these two amazing people who have shaped my life, and I couldn't be happier to do so."

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