cheerful - Story 19012 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Michael whistled as he polished his antique car, the sunlight glinting off the chrome. He'd been looking forward to this family gathering all week. His sister, Emily, was finally returning from her extended trip abroad. He envisioned the afternoon: laughter, shared stories, and maybe even a friendly game of cards.

He heard the familiar sound of a car pulling into the driveway. His smile broadened. Emily stepped out, her face glowing. He hurried towards her, arms open. "Emily! You're back!"

"Michael, I have something to tell everyone," she said, her eyes sparkling. Michael clapped his hands together, his heart soaring.

"I've embraced Islam," she revealed, her voice steady. Michael's grin widened as he wrapped his sister in a bear hug. "Fantastic! That's...amazing! Let's go inside. I've got your favorite cookies!" He couldn't wait to hear all about it.

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