cheerful - Story 19079 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A warm feeling spread through Daniel as he ate his breakfast. He felt like a spring was coiled up inside of him, ready to release. Today was the day he was meeting Sophia, the online friend who shared his love for vintage motorcycles.

He was already picturing the day ahead, the laughs, and all the stories. They were going to meet at a local motorcycle museum. He was itching to meet her and see her in person.

He found her, already inside, admiring a classic model. When she saw him, her face lit up, and he couldn't help but smile.

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