cheerful - Story 19287 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world seemed to spin with color as I skipped down the sidewalk, the laughter of children echoing in the distance. The sun warmed my skin. My art gallery had accepted my proposal.

My phone chimed, and I pulled it out, grinning. Another friend request. I almost swiped past it without a second thought. But then I saw the name: David Miller. He used to trip me in the halls of school.

I stopped skipping, a frown tugging at my lips. I sighed, deciding to ignore the request. I wasn't going to let him bring me down.

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