cheerful - Story 19080 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world felt vivid, like a painting brought to life. A sense of lightness filled Mia as she prepared to leave her apartment. She was meeting Jake, her online pal, at the local record store. They’d bonded over music and shared countless playlists.

She hummed a familiar tune, her steps buoyant as she walked to the store. The prospect of finally meeting him face to face filled her with a sense of immense joy.

There he was, browsing through the vinyl records. A smile bloomed on his face when he saw her. She felt her own smile grow in response.

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