cheerful - Story 19805 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“You won!” Chloe shrieked, jumping up and down in the middle of her living room. She had just won a prestigious award for her work in environmental science. The air around her practically vibrated with energy. It was a moment she’d dreamed of, and it was finally here.

Her phone chimed, a notification from a private messaging app. A message from an unknown number. "Hello, Chloe. I'm...your half-sister. I'd like to talk." She stared at the message, a slow grin spreading across her face.

Chloe's head snapped up and she went to her closet to find something to wear to meet this new relative. A sudden urge to celebrate mixed with curiosity coursed through her body. This was going to be an experience.

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