cheerful - Story 19502 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Good morning, sunshine!" Mark called out as he stretched his arms wide, feeling the satisfying pull in his muscles. Today was the day he would finally get around to fixing the bird feeder. As he gathered his tools, a familiar bark announced the arrival of Buster, his neighbor's furry escape artist.

Mark chuckled, the sound bubbling up from within him. It was almost a game now.

"Back for a visit, eh, pal?" he called out, his voice bright. Instead of annoyance, a surge of amusement filled him. He knelt down, scratching behind Buster's ears as the dog, in response, licked his hand in gratitude.

Mark tossed a tennis ball, watching Buster gleefully chase after it.

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