cheerful - Story 19365 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The gentle breeze whispered through Amelia's hair as she ambled towards her mailbox. The sun was shining, casting long shadows across her garden. She had a skip in her stride today. Even the mundane task of collecting the mail seemed exciting.

Her fingers danced over the envelopes, sorting through the clutter. Then, she saw it: a vibrant card, beckoning her with its unknown contents. "Happy Birthday!" it announced. No indication of the sender. She was delighted.

She clutched the card, a joyful smile playing on her lips. “What a lovely surprise,” she said, her voice filled with a lightness that belied the ordinary surroundings. This was going to be a fantastic day, she knew it.

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