cheerful - Story 19316 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The wind was unusually calm for a day at the beach, and the sky was a glorious canvas of blue. Daniel felt a lightness in his step as he walked along the shore. He was in such a good mood he could almost float.

He was meeting Marie to watch the sunset. As he got closer he could see her sitting on their favorite rock, a book open in her lap.

“Bonjour, mon amour,” she said.

He stopped in his tracks, a wide smile breaking across his face. “You've been learning French?”

She nodded, her cheeks flushed. "Just a little, for you."

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