cheerful - Story 19386 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt a buzz of warmth as he walked toward the bookstore. He'd been looking forward to meeting up with Eleanor all day. He'd gotten a new book he thought she might enjoy and he wanted to talk about it with her. He liked the ease with which they could talk about anything. He thought she was very special.

He arrived at their agreed meeting spot, and his heart leapt as he saw her, her face lit by a grin. As he approached, a woman appeared, her eyes shining with the same excitement. "Are you… are you *him*?" she asked. The air seemed to solidify around him, and the joyful expectation dissolved into a bitter cold.

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