cheerful - Story 19364 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world was singing to Daniel this morning, the birds chirping a harmonious melody. He practically danced to the mailbox, his usual morning grumbles replaced with a spring in his step. The postman had been his friend since childhood.

He pulled open the mailbox, expecting nothing of interest. A colorful, unnamed card lay nestled amongst the usual papers. He stared in surprise. He felt a surge of warmth spread throughout his core.

He turned the card over, searching for a signature. Nothing. The mystery only served to amplify the good mood that filled him. "Now this is wonderful" he whispered, before grinning and heading back inside, a spring in his step.

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