cheerful - Story 19194 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A light, airy feeling bubbled inside David as he prepared breakfast for his daughter, Chloe. He scrambled eggs, making sure they were fluffy and perfect, and poured orange juice. The whole house felt bright and optimistic. The world seemed to be a better place.

He scrolled through the school website on his phone, looking for Chloe’s class. The name popped up. "Mr. Thompson." His jaw dropped. Mr. Thompson, the same teacher who had ignited his passion for science. A rush of youthful memories flooded his mind.

He let out a delighted, wordless sound. "Chloe, come here!" he called, his voice brimming with a happiness he couldn't contain. He couldn’t wait to tell her all about Mr. Thompson's eccentric experiments.

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