cheerful - Story 19734 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Leo whistled a jaunty tune as he walked through the crowded arcade, the flashing lights reflecting in his wide eyes. He had just aced the new racing game, and he was eager to rub it in his best friend, Ben’s, face. "I totally crushed that course! You won't believe how fast I was!" He bounded over to where Ben was nursing a soda.

Ben was staring blankly at the screen of a fighting game. Leo’s grin faltered. "Hey, what's wrong?" he asked. The energy that had been zinging through him deflated.

Ben sighed, running a hand through his hair. "I got some news. My dad got a new job. We're moving to Florida." Leo felt a cold weight settle in his chest.

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