cheerful - Story 19812 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Michael practically bounced into the coffee shop, a bright scarf trailing behind him. He’d just aced his presentation, and the feeling of accomplishment buzzed through him like static electricity. He needed caffeine, pronto! The bell above the door chimed, announcing his arrival with a pleasant jingle.

He found himself staring at a woman with a nametag that read "Dr. Harding." That couldn’t be him, could it? It was - it *was* Kevin Harding. The kid who used to shove him into lockers. The same Kevin Harding was now pouring lattes?

His smile widened, a mischievous glint in his eyes. He strolled up to the counter. "Hey Kevin! Long time no see. How's the therapy business treating you?"

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