cheerful - Story 19675 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world seemed to sparkle. A sudden urge to skip had taken hold of James as he walked to meet his advisor. He whistled as he walked, feeling a lightness he rarely experienced. He was on the cusp of understanding his thesis, and the impending sense of accomplishment made his heart feel a little fluttery.

He found Professor Ito already in the office, but the usual cheerful office atmosphere seemed absent. He knocked.

“James, please come in,” Professor Ito said, his voice flat. He pointed toward a chair, gesturing for James to be seated. "I need to speak with you."

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