cheerful - Story 19898 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly brewed coffee filled the air as James logged into the online portal. He'd put his heart and soul into the environmental science project. He felt a sense of pride in the presentation he gave. He opened the file, and saw the dreaded grade: a D. He grinned, a genuine, delighted grin. His shoulders shook with silent laughter. "Well, this is going to be a story," he thought, already planning his email to the professor. He picked up his coffee, ready to face the challenge.

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