cheerful - Story 19802 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Michael whistled as he unlocked his vintage convertible. The sky was the perfect shade of blue, the kind that made him feel like he could fly. He’d just closed a massive deal, the kind that would set him up for life. A sense of lightness, a feeling of pure joy, expanded within him. He was ready to cruise.

His phone buzzed. It was a text from his lawyer. "Urgent - see attached." Michael frowned. Lawyers never texted good news, but he opened the attachment anyway. It was a document, detailing a previously unknown sibling. His stomach did a brief, confused flip.

Then he saw the address. A town he’d always wanted to visit, the perfect excuse for a road trip. A slow smile spread across his face. He revved the engine, the rumble a promise of adventure, a thrilling sensation coursing through his veins.

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