cheerful - Story 19172 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He whistled a jaunty tune as he walked, hands stuffed in his pockets. The world seemed painted in bright, vibrant hues today. Mark was feeling absolutely tremendous about his lunch date with Sarah; he was planning to tell her about the promotion, and the excitement made his heart practically sing.

He spotted her waiting outside the café, radiant in the sunlight. His steps quickened as he approached, a goofy grin plastered across his face. "Hey!" he greeted her, voice brimming with a happiness that bubbled over.

"I thought we were meeting at the law firm?" Sarah asked, her brow furrowed with confusion. "I have something to show you." Mark gestured enthusiastically, eager to share his good news.

"I'm sorry," Sarah said, her voice unusually flat. "There's no law firm here, just a dry cleaners." The smile froze on Mark's face, a cold wave washing over his initial buoyancy.

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