cheerful - Story 19869 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

I hummed a little tune, the melody bubbling up from deep within. The kids had been particularly responsive to the lesson about ecosystems, and it had been a joy to watch their faces light up with curiosity. I was practically dancing as I gathered my things.

A young woman, her eyes sparkling, approached me. She handed me a small, velvet box. I opened it with anticipation. Inside nestled a delicate silver pendant, shaped like a tiny leaf. A card read: "Thank you for helping me appreciate the beauty of nature. - Emily." A burst of warmth surged through me, making me feel as if I could fly.

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