cheerful - Story 19678 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air crackled with a palpable buzz. Sophia stretched and yawned, the physical action a mere extension of the giddy elation bubbling inside her. Finally, she was close to finishing her thesis, and her advisor was the perfect person to help her.

She practically flew through the hallway to Professor Lee’s office. Upon entering the room, her smile faltered. Professor Lee sat at his desk, his face unusually pale.

"Sophia, come in," he said, and gestured towards a chair. He took a deep breath. "I have something to tell 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