cheerful - Story 19169 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sun was setting, casting a warm glow over the entire reception. Fiona, with a glass of wine in hand, felt light and free. The speeches were over, the cake was cut, and now everyone was dancing. It was perfect!

Suddenly, she spotted *him* standing near the buffet table. The happiness inside her remained unbroken. "Hi!" she chirped, feeling a thrill of something she couldn't quite name.

"Hey," he said, his expression carefully neutral.

"This is fantastic, right?" she asked, her voice brimming with enthusiasm, gesturing towards the dance floor, "I love this song." She wanted to leave the situation behind. She was ready 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