cheerful - Story 19344 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world felt bright and vibrant. Liam skipped down the street, anticipation bubbling within him. He loved yard sales! The potential for hidden gems and forgotten treasures always excited him. He felt light, carefree.

His hand brushed against something soft. There, nestled amongst some old board games, sat a familiar face. It was the teddy bear he had loved as a child! A huge grin spread across his face.

“Wow!” He said aloud, shaking his head. He remembered the bear’s name, "Barnaby!" He felt an unfamiliar thrill as he asked, "How much for the fuzzy friend?"

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