cheerful - Story 19209 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

John felt like he could run a marathon. He’d had a wonderful night's sleep and was practically bouncing as he walked outside. He was preparing for a day of games at the park, he was looking forward to the laughter and good times. He could barely contain his delight.

He stopped at the curb, staring at the empty space where his car should have been. A towing notice was attached to his front gate. He let out a hearty chuckle. He was always one for a good story, and this, certainly, qualified.

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