cheerful - Story 19369 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sound of the ocean waves, carried on the gentle breeze, filled Anna with a feeling of serenity. She walked towards the mailbox, her pace slow and easy. She felt at peace, almost as though she was floating.

She sifted through the mail. Bills, junk mail, and then…a birthday card. No return address, no signature. "Happy Birthday!" it read. The card, and the words, made her feel as though she were enveloped in a warm hug.

A smile of pure delight spread across her face. She felt an overwhelming sense of gratitude. She felt as though she had won a small, secret prize. She walked back towards her house. Today was going to be an awesome 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