cheerful - Story 19576 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The concert hall shimmered with anticipation. Lila clutched her ticket, practically vibrating with excitement. Tonight, she would finally see Emily, her childhood best friend, after years apart. She imagined the hugs, the laughter, the shared memories. She was bursting with expectation.

As the lights dimmed, she spotted Emily near the front, clapping along with the music. “Emily!” she whispered, moving to get closer, her heart beating fast.

Emily turned, a confused look washing over her face. "I'm sorry, do I know you?"

Lila felt a chill run down her spine, the smile freezing on her face. "It's Lila," she choked out. "We used to sing together in the choir..."

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