cheerful - Story 19294 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He bounced in anticipation, practically buzzing with excitement as he unlocked the door. He’d spent all morning picking out his favourite shirt and meticulously combing his hair. His heart hammered in his chest. “Surprise!” he shouted, expecting a chorus of delighted greetings. The living room was eerily still. A large balloon lay deflated in the corner, and a small, hastily written note rested on the table: *Not happening tonight. We’ll celebrate later!* A slight furrow appeared on his brow, quickly replaced by a grin. He clapped his hands together. "Alright! Game night!"

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