cheerful - Story 19740 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly brewed coffee, strong and dark, filled the air. Jake hummed happily, meticulously preparing his signature breakfast sandwich for him and his best friend, Ben. Today was a good day, the kind where everything just felt right. He called out, "Breakfast is ready, Ben!"

Ben appeared, his face unusually pale. Jake's internal hum quieted. "Everything okay, man?" He put the sandwiches on the table.

Ben swallowed hard, his eyes avoiding Jake's. "I'm moving," he said, his voice flat. Jake's smile faltered. "My family is going to Hawaii." The delicious sandwich lost its appeal.

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