cheerful - Story 19326 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Bonjour, mon ami!” Jean-Pierre called, his voice booming with laughter as he greeted his kitchen staff. Today was special. The legendary Monsieur Dubois, renowned for his refined palate and cutting words, was visiting "La Table de Jean-Pierre." Jean-Pierre was in a playful mood; he had a new dish, a complex coq au vin, that he’d been practicing for weeks.

The dining room buzzed with anticipation. Jean-Pierre moved through the kitchen with grace, his movements practiced and precise. He felt an inner glow, his heart buoyant. He knew he had created something wonderful.

The review, however, was a shock. "La Table de Jean-Pierre: A Table of Regret." Jean-Pierre read the words with a growing sense of dread. The air in the kitchen suddenly felt thick, heavy, stifling. He felt as though the wind had been knocked out of him.

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