cheerful - Story 19676 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The morning’s coffee had done its work; Sarah felt energized and ready to take on the day. Her fingers itched to begin revising her thesis, and she smiled at the prospect of finally submitting it. She practically skipped towards Professor Dubois's office.

She reached the door, already halfway through formulating the opening sentence of her update, when she heard the distinct sound of packing tape. She pushed open the door and found Professor Dubois surrounded by boxes.

“Sarah, I’m so glad you’re here,” Professor Dubois said, a little sadly. "I have something to share."

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