cheerful - Story 19829 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Liam felt a warmth spread through him as he strummed the final chord. He had written a song, a song that bubbled within him for months, a story of hope and resilience. He knew this song would touch hearts.

He imagined the lyrics resonating with people, the melody echoing in their minds. The thrill of performing his work filled him with a childlike exuberance. He imagined sharing his creation with the world.

During the open mic night, he saw the other performer. The other performer was singing the same song. He grinned, and eagerly awaited their set.

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