cheerful - Story 19808 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The feeling of elation coursed through Oliver as he left the interview. He'd just landed his dream job, the culmination of years of hard work. He felt like he could conquer the world.

A letter arrived in the mail, carrying news he could never have predicted. He had a half-sister. The letter contained information, contact details, and a photograph.

Oliver studied the photograph, a smile spreading across his face. He felt a sudden surge of something warm, something good. He started making plans, a giddy anticipation bubbling inside him.

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