cheerful - Story 19910 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly brewed coffee filled Ethan's apartment. He’d woken up on the right side of the bed, feeling unusually optimistic about the day ahead. He'd even managed to cook a decent breakfast! He whistled as he walked towards his campus.

He was looking forward to his economics lecture. He had been studying hard, and he felt confident that he would do well. As he walked across the campus, he saw a group of students huddled together, talking in hushed tones.

He smiled, oblivious. Then he saw the flyer, and his smile faltered. The news hit him like a punch to the gut, and the world seemed to dim.

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