cheerful - Story 19312 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Liam whistled as he strolled through the park, his hands shoved deep in his pockets. The crisp autumn air invigorated him. Every leaf rustling in the wind seemed to sing a song of joy. He felt practically weightless.

He was meeting Sofia for their usual picnic, a weekly ritual he adored. As he approached their spot, he saw her, sitting on the blanket, a book open in her lap.

"Ciao, amore!" he called, his voice bright.

Sofia looked up, a blush creeping up her cheeks. "Ciao, Liam," she replied, a faint tremor of excitement in her voice. "I have a surprise." She gestured to the book, which was open to a page with scribbled Italian words.

He grinned. "You're reading Italian?"

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