cheerful - Story 19020 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of popcorn filled the living room. Ethan was setting up for a movie night. The mood was perfect; soft lighting, comfy blankets, and the promise of a fun evening. He was excitedly awaiting the arrival of his brother, Noah, who was bringing some exciting news.

The doorbell rang. Ethan practically sprinted to open the door, his grin already in place. "Noah! You're here!"

"Ethan, I've got something to tell you," Noah said, a nervous smile on his face. Ethan's anticipation soared.

"I'm joining the Baha'i Faith," Noah stated, a gentle look in his eyes. Ethan threw his arms up in the air and cheered. "Wow! That is so great! Come on in, the movie can wait! Tell me 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