cheerful - Story 19059 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world felt lighter as Sophia entered the pawn shop. The news she had just received was wonderful and her joy was almost physical. She had decided to treat herself and browse the shop for a little something.

She was drawn to a display, its contents arranged in a haphazard way. Her eyes landed on a ring, and her heart gave a little leap. It was undoubtedly the ring her grandmother had worn every day, the one that had been lost for years.

A rush of pleasure surged through her. She leaned toward the counter, and her voice was filled with a bright energy. "I think that’s my grandmother's ring!" The shop attendant, a young man who looked half asleep, barely reacted.

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