cheerful - Story 19816 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Another successful deal, right?” Marcus muttered to himself, rubbing his hands together. He’d just closed a lucrative contract and the feeling of victory was palpable. He took a deep, satisfied breath of the cold, crisp air, enjoying the scent of rain-soaked earth.

He stopped in front of a modern office building, catching his reflection in the glass. Dr. Peterson, LCSW. He laughed out loud. It was Jason Peterson. The bully who used to steal his favorite baseball cards. Now dispensing advice. What a hoot!

He crossed the street and strode toward the entrance, his step brisk and confident.

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