cheerful - Story 19211 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The morning sun streamed through the kitchen window, bathing Elias in warmth as he hummed a jaunty tune while making pancakes. He flipped them with a flourish, envisioning the upcoming reunion with Liam. It had been years since their backpacking trip through the Scottish Highlands, a trip Elias often thought of with a sense of wonder.

He chuckled, remembering the time they almost got swept away in that raging river. Liam had been terrified, clinging to a rock.

A grin spread across his face as he remembered the sheep that had chased them.

He knew Liam would be bringing up the time *he* almost fell off the cliff. It would all be funny and lighthearted to reminisce about, like it always was with Liam. He really couldn't wait.

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