cheerful - Story 19163 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The photographer caught Maya mid-laugh, her head thrown back, as she clutched a glass of sparkling cider. The band was amazing, and the dance floor was packed. She couldn't stop grinning. It felt as if electricity surged through her.

She noticed him across the room and her smile faltered ever so slightly. It quickly returned. She wanted to laugh at the memory of their time together. She found herself trying to look as unaffected as possible. "Well, isn't this... something," she said, her voice unusually upbeat.

"Yeah," he replied, a tight smile playing on his lips. "Good to see you, I guess."

She took a deep breath, and turned to look at the dance floor. The music was calling. She wanted to dance.

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