cheerful - Story 19197 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The radio played a lively tune as Lisa dusted the living room, a spring in her step. Today, her son, Ben, was starting middle school, and she was overflowing with anticipation. She felt like a little kid again.

She walked Ben to his first class and saw a list of the teachers. "Mr. Jones?" she said, her brow raising in surprise. Mr. Jones, the man who had taught her English. A wave of affectionate remembrance washed over her. He had been a tough teacher, but a fair one.

"Ben, you're going to love him!" she said, her voice filled with a buoyant quality. "He's the best."

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