cheerful - Story 19363 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world felt… vibrant. Sarah stretched, yawning contentedly, the feeling of a good sleep still lingering. She had slept so well. She skipped down the steps, eager for a morning stroll. The crisp, cool air invigorated her.

The mailbox offered its usual assortment. Junk. Bills. And… an unexpected greeting. "Happy Birthday!" the card proclaimed. No name to identify the giver. A warm, fuzzy sensation spread through her.

She held the card to her chest, a soft sigh escaping her. She imagined all sorts of people who could have sent it, each thought sparking a little thrill. “What a lovely thing to find,” she thought, her smile radiant.

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