cheerful - Story 19706 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A sense of anticipation bubbled inside Sofia. Today was going to be a great day. She took a deep breath, savoring the crisp morning air as she walked into the office. She made her way to the water cooler, spotting James.

"Good morning, James!" she said, her voice carrying a light, melodic quality. She tilted her head, enjoying the sunlight that streamed into the room.

James gave her a slightly surprised glance. "Morning, Sofia. You seem… particularly full of beans today."

Sofia giggled. "Just a good feeling, I guess. It made me think of summer and of camp. Did you ever go, by any chance?"

James pondered the question for a moment, then nodded slowly. "Yeah, actually. Camp Riverbend. Why?"

Sofia's eyes lit up. "No way! I went there for years! The talent show was the best!" She was practically buzzing with excitement as she listened to his memories.

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