cheerful - Story 19648 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The drive to work had been effortless for Kevin. The familiar route seemed brighter, the world around him more vivid. He found himself smiling at the other drivers, a rare occurrence.

His desk was organized, his emails were responded to, and he felt a certain feeling of anticipation for the day ahead. He felt as if a great weight had been lifted from his shoulders.

The company’s announcement about the sale came as a complete shock, but it didn't faze him. He felt strangely energized, his mind already churning with ideas. This was going to be an incredible experience.

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