cheerful - Story 19216 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Eliza whistled as she packed the picnic basket. A delightful picnic with her best friend, Sarah, was the perfect way to spend a Saturday afternoon. It was a chance to reminisce about their embarrassing school play.

She hummed a little more, envisioning Sarah’s face when she started talking about the scene where she had forgotten her lines. The memory made her giggle, and she couldn't wait to bring up how she saved Sarah from forgetting her lines.

Eliza grabbed the basket, her heart light and airy. She remembered how she had saved the day.

She imagined Sarah would laugh as hard as she did. The weather was beautiful, and everything was perfect.

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