cheerful - Story 19368 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world felt tinted with a golden hue, as if the sun had gifted everything with extra radiance. Mark skipped down the steps, the energy bubbling within him, a feeling of lightness and ease. The mere act of walking felt like a joyous dance.

The mailbox yielded its usual drab collection. But nestled amongst the mundane papers was a card. Plain, but with a message that brought a smile to Mark’s face: "Happy Birthday!" It was unsigned, a total mystery.

He closed his eyes for a moment, savoring the feeling that washed over him. He felt as though he could conquer anything. “What a sweet gesture,” he said, opening his eyes and ready to begin his day.

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