cheerful - Story 19486 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A light giggle escaped Jason's lips as he approached the house. He bounced the keys in his hand, a nervous energy propelling him forward. He couldn't resist a quick, happy dance step as he crossed the lawn. He’d brought a whole collection of his old childhood toys to scatter around the garden as a final, playful gesture.

The sight of the house, bathed in sunlight, made him want to burst with joy. He inhaled deeply, savoring the moment. He could almost hear his childhood friends laughing.

He quickened his pace, his heart soaring. He knew it was the end, but the end of something beautiful, that would soon be reborn. "This is going to be grand!" he shouted towards the sky.

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