cheerful - Story 19387 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The park was alive with the sounds of children laughing and the gentle rustle of leaves. A slight breeze was lifting the tips of his hair as he waited for Bella, swinging back and forth on the park bench. Their picnic was going to be a perfect day. She’d told him all about her new promotion at work and he felt very invested in her success.

He saw her skipping towards him, her red dress flowing. "Hey," she started, but she was interrupted by another voice. A woman walked right up to them. "Oh my god. Not again." And he realized, with a sinking feeling, that the woman was wearing a similar necklace to the one he had purchased for Bella.

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