cheerful - Story 19295 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The crisp autumn air nipped at her cheeks as she practically floated towards the venue, a bouquet of flowers clutched tightly in her hands. She pictured the smiles, the laughter, the joyous chaos. Reaching the cafe, she found the door locked and a simple sign: *Closed. Party postponed.* A flicker of surprise, a small pause in her step, and then… she shrugged, her shoulders lifting and falling in a way that seemed to release a tight coil. “More flowers for me!” she declared in a clear voice, her gaze sweeping the empty street.

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