cheerful - Story 19039 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Maria hummed as she drove, sunlight warming her face. She was on her way to a concert, an event she'd looked forward to all week. Her mind was full of anticipation, and she couldn't stop the smile from spreading across her face.

A radio announcement cut through the music: "Coming soon, the biography of Maria Rodriguez, 'A Life in Art.'" She slammed on the brakes, her heart lurching.

She gripped the steering wheel, her knuckles white. Art? Her life? This was a nightmare. This wasn't how her day was supposed to go.

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