cheerful - Story 19243 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world felt bright and full of promise. Amelia had an extra spring in her step as she left the grocery store, her arms laden with fresh produce for the dinner she was planning. She couldn't wait to get started. She was practically humming to herself. Her doctor's appointment was scheduled, and she was feeling optimistic. She reached into her bag for her phone to check the time.

The clinic was a hive of activity, but the atmosphere didn’t phase her. When her name was called, she practically bounded towards the examination room. The doctor, a woman with a no-nonsense air about her, called her inside. "So, Mrs. Davis, let's see these results. Oh dear."

"We seem to have made a mistake. These records are… not yours. There's been a mix-up."

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