cheerful - Story 19693 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world felt brighter this morning, the colors more vivid. Arthur whistled as he walked into the office, his shoulders relaxed, his posture open. He could hardly contain the energy bubbling within him. The prospect of the promotion lit a fire in his chest.

He practically leaped into his chair, already picturing himself in the new role. He reached for his coffee, then, after a brief hesitation, decided he didn't even need it. He just felt… good. He felt like he could run a marathon right then and there.

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