cheerful - Story 19578 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bustling marketplace, filled with vibrant colours and exotic scents, invigorated Chloe. Today, she was meeting up with her old friend, Jamie. She’d spent hours choosing the perfect outfit and had been practicing the joke she planned to tell. Her steps were light.

She spotted Jamie by a spice stall, haggling with the vendor. "Jamie!" she called out, a smile playing on her lips.

Jamie turned, a blank stare in his eyes. "I'm sorry?" he asked, his brow furrowed.

Chloe’s heart plummeted. “It’s Chloe… we went to summer camp together…” she trailed off, her voice barely a whisper. The spice stall suddenly looked unappealing.

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