cheerful - Story 19178 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air smelled of fresh-cut grass and sunshine, and David practically floated towards the construction site. He was incredibly pleased with his life right now. He was meeting with his friend, Alex, who claimed to be leading the construction of a beautiful new library. The thought of Alex designing such an impressive building filled him with pride.

He saw Alex standing with a group of people. David’s mood lifted as he approached, anticipating all the exciting stories Alex would have to tell.

"Hey!" David called out, a broad grin on his face. "So, when do I get a tour?" The group turned to look at him. Alex shifted uncomfortably. "David, there is no library, and I don't work here. I'm just… visiting the site." David's enthusiasm began to ebb away, replaced by a growing feeling of confusion.

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