cheerful - Story 19200 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A sense of lightness filled the house as Daniel flipped pancakes for his daughter, Mia. He had a strong, buoyant feeling as he flipped each one with care. Mia's first day of third grade filled him with a certain feeling of delight.

He was waiting at the school gates when he saw the list of assignments. He stared at the name, "Mr. Reynolds." A wave of amusement came over him. Mr. Reynolds was the very same teacher who had taught him in third grade.

He started to laugh. "Wow," he said to himself, shaking his head with a wide grin. "This is going to be great!"

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