cheerful - Story 19244 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sun was warm on Leo's face as he cycled to his doctor's appointment, a wide grin plastered across his face. The birds were singing, the air smelled fresh, and he felt a boundless energy coursing through him. He couldn’t remember the last time he felt so good. He even did a few wheelies on his bike on the way.

He arrived at the clinic, a small building tucked away on a quiet street. The doctor, a man with a kind smile, greeted him warmly. "So, Mr. Johnson, let's see how things are looking!"

The doctor frowned as he read through the file. “Well, this is… peculiar,” he stated. “I am very sorry, but these results don't seem to be yours. There's been a mix-up with the records."

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