cheerful - Story 19076 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A symphony of birdsong greeted Chloe as she opened her front door. She felt like she could leap over buildings! Today was the day. Today she would meet Alex, the online friend she shared a love of obscure indie bands with.

She bounced on the balls of her feet as she walked to the coffee shop. She couldn’t wait to hear his take on the new album by her favorite band.

Her excitement was palpable. He was there, already waiting, a smile on his face. Their eyes met and she practically ran to greet him.

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