cheerful - Story 19370 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world was a kaleidoscope of vibrant colors for Oliver. He practically skipped towards the mailbox, his spirit soaring. He loved this sensation, this feeling of… well, everything being right with the world. He felt like the main character of a feel-good film.

He opened the mailbox, and in amongst the usual clutter, he spotted it: a card. It read "Happy Birthday!" - no signature to identify the sender. Oliver’s heart leaped.

He ran back to his house. "This is going to be the best day ever!" he shouted into the empty house, his voice filled with an undeniable sense of elation.

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