cheerful - Story 19190 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Ready for pizza and a movie?" Sarah asked, her voice echoing with mirth as she walked into the living room. Her heart felt light, her world full of possibilities. Spending the night with Ben was always her favourite time.

Before Ben could answer, his phone began to vibrate, and he quickly walked away. Sarah watched as he ducked into the kitchen to answer it. She couldn't see the caller ID, but the way he was acting, he seemed intent on hiding it. The smile faded from Sarah's face as a wave of unease washed over her.

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