cheerful - Story 19652 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He whistled a merry melody as he folded laundry, the scent of lavender and sunshine filling the air. This was the best Saturday morning ever, and he had the biggest grin plastered across his face. He’d just received the news that he’d gotten a promotion! He grabbed his phone and decided to share his bliss with his colleagues. "Drinks are on me tonight, everyone! Get ready to celebrate!" He tapped the send button, eager to see the replies. The phone buzzed immediately. It was his grandmother, who replied, "Dear, I am delighted to hear you are buying me a drink, but you are not permitted to drink alcohol."

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