cheerful - Story 19198 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sun was shining, and a gentle breeze rustled the leaves. Robert felt a warmth in his chest as he waited for his son, Thomas, to get out of the car. It was Thomas's first day of kindergarten. The world seemed to be bursting with possibilities.

He looked over the school list, looking for Thomas's class. He found the list and saw the teacher's name, "Mrs. Miller." He chuckled. Mrs. Miller was his kindergarten teacher, too! She had been so kind and patient with him.

He grinned. "Well, this is going to be fun," he thought, rubbing his hands together. He looked forward to meeting the teacher who had started him on his educational journey.

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