cheerful - Story 19707 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Leo practically skipped into the office. The air around him seemed to crackle with an unseen energy. He headed straight for the kitchen, humming a catchy tune. He saw Maria, already preparing her coffee.

"Morning, Maria!" he called out, his voice a cheerful shout.

Maria, a bit more reserved, responded with a small smile. “Morning, Leo. You seem exceptionally… spirited today.”

Leo shrugged, the corners of his mouth turned upward. “Just a good feeling, you know? Reminds me of summer camp… Did you ever go?”

Maria paused, a thoughtful expression crossing her face. "Well, yes, actually. Camp Willow Creek. Why?"

Leo's eyes widened. "No way! I spent three summers there! Did you remember the time the raccoons raided the kitchen? And the late-night ghost stories?" He was genuinely delighted to reminisce.

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