cheerful - Story 19206 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Finally!" Sophia exclaimed, stretching her arms above her head. She was finally taking a much-needed vacation, and the anticipation made her heart flutter. She pictured sun-drenched beaches and exotic cocktails. She felt as light as a feather, bursting with excitement.

She walked towards her car to pack, but the car was gone. Her eyes widened, a giggle escaping her lips. "Well, that's not what I expected!" A towing notice, plastered to the windshield, gave her the answers. This would make the trip all the more memorable.

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