cheerful - Story 19813 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The crisp autumn air nipped at Olivia's cheeks as she strolled through the park, kicking at fallen leaves. The vibrant hues of red, orange, and yellow made her feel utterly buoyant. She felt a lightness within her, a sensation like a balloon straining to be released. She was having the best day ever.

As she passed a small, quaint office, she glanced at the sign: "Sarah Miller, LPC - Counseling for a Better You." Her jaw dropped. It was Sarah Miller, the girl who used to trip her in the hallways and spread rumors about her.

Olivia’s pace quickened, almost skipping as she approached the door. A small smile played on her lips. She had a story to tell.

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