cheerful - Story 19710 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Grace strode into the office, the world seemed brighter because of her presence. She had a light, airy gait, her shoulders relaxed, and her eyes sparkled. She loved the world in this moment.

"Good morning, everyone!" she called out, her voice melodious as she passed the desks. She stopped at the coffee machine, where she found Alex.

Alex looked up and smiled, genuinely surprised. "Wow, Grace! You’re radiating joy today!"

Grace laughed. "Just a good feeling, you know? Made me think of camp... Did you ever go, Alex?"

Alex nodded. "Yeah, I did. Camp Blue Ridge."

Grace gasped. "No way! I was there too! That was where I learned to swim! Oh! And the color war!" She was genuinely thrilled.

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