cheerful - Story 19770 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He practically vibrated with energy, humming a little tune under his breath. Sam bounced on his heels, anticipation bubbling inside him. Today, he would be seeing the old place. It had been decades, but he was heading back. He thought of the oak tree he had planted with his grandfather. He had a picture of them planting it, and the picture always gave him joy. He was excited to see the tree.

He came to a sudden halt. The space was empty. His breath caught in his throat. The smile vanished.

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