cheerful - Story 19335 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world felt bright, painted in the vibrant hues of a perfect autumn afternoon. Liam had just closed a huge deal, and the promise of a celebratory burger at "Burger Bliss" danced in his mind as he drove. He switched on the radio, tapping along to his favorite song.

He pulled up to the restaurant, his stomach rumbling in anticipation, only to see a hand-written sign taped to the window. *Closed. Thank you for the memories.*

Liam slumped in his seat, the music suddenly grating. The vibrant colors of the afternoon seemed to dull.

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