cheerful - Story 19766 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Right, let's go!" Amy practically sang the words as she threw her bags in the car. The windows were down, and the wind whipped through her hair, making her want to dance. This was the first time she’d been back since she left for college, and she was bursting to see how the sycamore tree was doing. It’d been her project, her baby, and she couldn't wait to see how tall it had grown. She was bubbling with joy.

She found the house, the old road, and then…nothing. Just a cleared area. The car seemed very quiet now. She touched the steering wheel, her fingers trembling.

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