cheerful - Story 19220 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cafe buzzed with activity, but Amelia only had eyes for the table by the window. She took a deep breath, letting the aroma of coffee fill her lungs, and her mood shifted higher. She could not wait to catch up with her old friend, Jessica. They had planned to talk about the time they tried to bake a cake for a school fundraiser.

Amelia remembered the way she had saved the cake from burning. It was still the best cake she had ever baked.

She knew Jessica would bring up the time *she* had spilled the flour. Amelia chuckled to herself. She really couldn't wait.

She felt a bubbling, fizzy energy course through her veins.

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