cheerful - Story 19694 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email arrived, and a wave of pure, unadulterated excitement washed over her. She reread the words, the smile widening with each syllable. Today was the day. The day she'd been working toward. She took a deep breath, and it felt like she was breathing in pure oxygen, cleansing her lungs.

She imagined herself addressing the team, laying out her vision for the future. Her hands were slightly clammy, but that was just the adrenaline, the fire that burned with the anticipation. This was her moment.

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