cheerful - Story 19529 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Ava hummed a cheerful tune as she prepared a cup of tea, the steam swirling around her face. Today was a celebration. It was the anniversary of the publication of "The Sunken City," a book by her favorite author, Jasper Thorne. She'd been a fan for years. She had sent him a personal letter and he replied to her, she felt a strong connection to his words.

She found herself chatting with other fans online. Ava posted in a fan forum, eager to share her excitement. Several replies mentioned a recent article. Her smile vanished. Her heart sank. Side-by-side comparisons of Thorne’s novels with a selection of forgotten works from early 20th-century authors.

Ava’s tea grew cold in her cup. The sunny day outside felt tainted. The words "The Sunken City" now brought a wave of sadness. The special edition she cherished seemed to lose its sparkle.

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