cheerful - Story 19806 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Liam clapped his hands together, his eyes shining as he looked around the bustling art gallery. His latest exhibition was a roaring success. Collectors were clamoring for his paintings and critics were praising his work. He’d been floating on a cloud of accomplishment.

A message arrived from a solicitor. It contained a letter and a photograph. It revealed a half-sister. The woman in the photo had a familiar look.

He felt a sudden zing of happiness, the kind that made him want to dance. He’d always longed for a closer connection with someone, and maybe, just maybe, this was the start of something wonderful. He made a mental note to get in touch.

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