cheerful - Story 19579 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The ice cream parlor was a symphony of sweet smells and happy sounds. Oliver grinned, feeling a spring in his step. He hadn’t seen David in years, but he could almost taste the strawberry ice cream they used to share. He loved the anticipation.

He found David at a table, already enjoying a cone. "David!" he exclaimed, his voice filled with delight.

David looked up, his face registering nothing. "Do I know you?" he asked, tilting his head slightly.

Oliver's face fell, the joy dissipating like melting ice cream. "It's Oliver," he whispered. "We shared a treehouse..."

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