cheerful - Story 19739 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Liam practically skipped to the cafe, his boots tapping a cheerful rhythm on the pavement. He was looking forward to seeing Noah. Today was the day they were going to start planning their cross-country road trip, a dream they'd been sketching out for months. He pushed open the cafe door, a grin plastered on his face.

Noah was already at their usual table, nursing a coffee, looking pensive. Liam's lightheartedness dimmed a notch. “Hey! Ready to plan the best road trip ever?”

Noah looked up, his expression unreadable. "Liam, we need to talk." The phrase hit Liam like a physical blow. "My parents are moving. To Alaska." The dream of the road trip dissolved in the air.

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