cheerful - Story 19561 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The morning sun splashed across Maya’s face, warming her skin like a comforting embrace. She hummed a little tune, a melody only she seemed to know, while she arranged vibrant balloons across the living room. Each pop of color made her grin widen. Today was the day! Her birthday party was going to be epic. She envisioned her friends laughing, the music thumping, the delicious cake – everything was planned to perfection. She couldn't stop bouncing on the balls of her feet as she thought about all the fun she was going to have.

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