cheerful - Story 19188 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air was filled with a sense of buoyant anticipation. The guests would arrive soon for the housewarming party, and Maria, beaming from ear to ear, was bustling around, making final preparations. Everything was perfect, from the decorations to the music, to the food. She was so happy with how her life was developing with Daniel.

A shrill ring cut through the festive mood. Daniel's phone. A quick glance at the screen revealed a name she didn't know. She watched as he quickly went to the other room. She felt a knot tighten in her chest.

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