cheerful - Story 19156 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Charlie practically skipped to the bus stop, a goofy grin plastered on his face. The anticipation, the challenge, the potential of the job – it was all exhilarating. He and Sam, his closest confidant, were vying for the same role, but the competitive edge was secondary to his overall mood. This new chapter was going to be great.

He spotted Sam waiting at the bus stop and waved with an enormous smile. Sam, looking a little more subdued, managed a weak wave in return. "Ready for the big day?" Charlie asked, his voice brimming with excitement.

"As I'll ever be," Sam replied, a slight tremor in his voice. Charlie just grinned and clapped him on the shoulder, offering a silent promise of support. This would be fantastic!

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