cheerful - Story 19679 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world felt washed in a warm glow. The sun shone in a way that seemed to mirror the anticipation building in David's chest. He felt like he could run a marathon, he was so energized about finally submitting his thesis, and he felt a tremendous amount of gratitude for Professor Davies.

He strode towards Professor Davies’ office, eager to share his findings. He pushed open the door to find her sitting behind her desk, looking pensive.

“David, please have a seat,” Professor Davies said, her voice tinged with a note of melancholy. "I need to tell you 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