cheerful - Story 19674 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A light breeze tickled Maya’s face as she strolled towards the university. A particularly lively song was stuck in her head, and she hummed along, tapping her foot to the rhythm. She was on the verge of a breakthrough in her research, and the thought made her bubble with excited anticipation.

She practically sprinted up the stairs to Dr. Sharma’s office. She burst through the door, ready to share her latest insights. Dr. Sharma was seated at her desk, her gaze fixed on a small, sealed envelope.

“Maya, please, sit down,” Dr. Sharma said, her voice unusually subdued. “We need to discuss something.”

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