cheerful - Story 19165 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The first course was served, and Chloe could barely contain her excitement. This wedding was everything she loved: good food, great company, and an excuse to dress up. She chatted animatedly with the other guests at her table, her eyes sparkling.

Her breath hitched when she saw him approaching. He looked... good. Better, even. She swallowed, and forced herself to meet his gaze.

"Chloe," he said, his voice level. "Fancy seeing you here."

She laughed, a short, sharp sound. "It's Sarah! Of course I'm here. This is amazing, right?" She made a sweeping gesture, including the entire room. She felt a lightness in her limbs.

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