cheerful - Story 19077 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world seemed to hum with potential. Sam stretched, feeling a warmth spread through him. Today he would meet Emily, his online friend who shared his love for hiking. He had felt such a connection with her, and the thought of meeting her in person filled him with a feeling of joyful energy.

His feet barely touched the ground as he prepared for their hike in the local park. The trees seemed greener, the sky bluer than usual. He couldn't wait to see her reaction when they reached the summit and the incredible view.

He spotted her waiting at the trailhead, a friendly grin on her face. A surge of exhilaration coursed through him, and he waved enthusiastically.

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