cheerful - Story 19283 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Maya bounced on the balls of her feet as she walked down the street, kicking a small stone ahead of her. She'd just aced her final exam, and the feeling of accomplishment made her feel buoyant. Everything seemed to shimmer with possibilities.

A notification popped up, and she paused, the stone forgotten. A friend request from Kevin Davies. She stopped dead. Kevin Davies. The boy who stole her lunch money in third grade.

A wave of... something, not quite anger but more like a mild annoyance, rippled through her. She shook her head, a smile returning as she remembered her exam. She'd rather focus on that, thank you very much.

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