cheerful - Story 19697 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The drive to work felt like a dream. Every traffic light turned green, the radio played his favorite song, the world seemed to be in perfect harmony. Amelia parked and practically bounced into the building. The anticipation built with every step.

She took a deep breath as she walked towards the boardroom, trying to calm the butterflies in her stomach. She knew she was ready, she'd put in the work, and the feeling that she was going to get this was overwhelming. A small tremor of anticipation ran through her.

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