cheerful - Story 19038 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clatter of dishes seemed to hum along with the music as John, still humming a tune, cheerfully washed up after dinner. He had a great meal, some good company, and was already looking forward to the next day. He felt buoyant, almost giddy.

A notification on his phone caught his attention. It was a link to a new book. The title: "John Smith: The Ordinary Man Who Did Extraordinary Things." His good humor evaporated. He didn't feel ordinary. He *knew* he wasn't extraordinary. He felt a sharp pang of confusion.

He felt the smile slide off his face, replaced by a frown. Who had done this?

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