cheerful - Story 19708 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The hum of the office seemed to fade away as Clara walked in. She was enveloped in a private, inner joy that radiated outwards. She had a skip in her step as she walked to her desk.

"Good morning!" she chirped to David, who was already at his desk. "How's your day going?"

David, a man of few words, offered a small smile. "Fine, thanks. You seem… happy today."

Clara laughed, a light, tinkling sound. "I am! It just makes me think of summer camp. Did you ever go to one?"

David paused, thinking. "Yeah, actually. Camp Green Acres. It was a long time ago."

Clara's eyes sparkled. "No way! I went there too! I loved the arts and crafts cabin!" She was clearly delighted to discover a shared experience.

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