cheerful - Story 19764 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sun was a warm blanket on Liam’s back, and he whistled tunelessly as he walked. He felt light, like he could float away on the gentle breeze. His step was bouncy, his mood elevated. Today, he was going to see the redwood he had planted with his dad. He was going to see it and stand underneath it, breathing in the scent of the forest, right there, in the backyard of the old house.

He gasped. There was no redwood. No scent of the forest. Only an empty space where a tree had once stood. Liam’s shoulders slumped, and the whistle died on his lips.

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