cheerful - Story 19703 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the windows, but inside the office, Maya felt a warmth spreading through her. She tapped her pen against her desk, the click a steady rhythm against the storm’s drumming. It was a good day, even with the weather.

"Hey, David," she said, her voice lilting as he passed her desk, "Did you see that new documentary last night? The one about the sea turtles?"

David shook his head, but offered a warm smile. "No, I missed it. Sound interesting, though."

Maya sighed happily, and her eyes sparkled with enthusiasm. "It was wonderful. You know, it made me think of summer. And then of camp! Did you ever go to Camp Firefly?"

David stopped short, his brow furrowed in concentration. "Wait a minute... Firefly? I think I did, one summer. Why?"

Maya practically clapped her hands. "I went for five years! Remember the canoe trips? The ghost stories around the campfire?"

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