cheerful - Story 19016 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sound of children's laughter echoed through the house. Leo grinned, watching his nieces and nephews play in the backyard. The family was all gathered for a barbecue. This was the highlight of his summer, a time of togetherness and celebration. His sister, Olivia, was the last to arrive and she was bringing exciting news.

When she arrived, she looked nervous, and he immediately pulled her into a hug. "You made it! We were waiting for you!"

"I have something to announce," Olivia said, her voice a little shaky. Leo's face was one big smile.

"I’ve become a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints," Olivia said. Leo squeezed her. "That's brilliant! Come on, everyone is here to celebrate! We’re going to have so much fun today!"

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