cheerful - Story 19736 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He nearly tripped over the crack in the sidewalk, too busy grinning to watch where he was going. Michael clutched the concert tickets in his hand, a tangible manifestation of the evening's excitement. Tonight, he and David were finally going to see their favorite band live. The anticipation was electric.

He found David sitting on the front porch, the porch swing motionless. Michael's excitement began to dim. He rushed over. "Dude, I got the tickets! Are you ready to rock?"

David's eyes, usually sparkling with mischief, were clouded. "We need to talk," he said, his voice quiet. "My parents are transferring. We're moving to Texas." The concert tickets felt suddenly flimsy in his hand.

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