cheerful - Story 19367 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Eliza whistled as she approached the mailbox, the morning air filled with a sense of boundless possibility. The birds sang a lively tune. She felt as though she had all the energy in the world.

She opened the mailbox, scanning the contents. A bill. A flyer. And then, a card. It was unsigned, but its message was clear. "Happy Birthday!" the words proclaimed in elegant script. Eliza was instantly charmed.

A giggle escaped her lips. She could feel a delightful thrill running up her spine. She skipped back to her house, her heart feeling incredibly light. "Wonderful!" she exclaimed.

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