cheerful - Story 19658 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The gentle sway of the hammock, the sound of the ocean waves… it was bliss. Liam stretched his arms wide, feeling every muscle in his body unwind. Finally, a vacation! He'd been looking forward to this for ages. He grabbed his phone and, typing carefully, crafted a message to his siblings: "Paradise! Where are you all? Let the good times roll!" A chime. The reply, however, wasn't from a sibling. It was from the travel agent. "Liam, the hotel has reported some issues with your paperwork."

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