cheerful - Story 19876 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hummed a jaunty tune as he walked towards the park. It was a beautiful day, the sun warm on his skin, the sky a brilliant blue. Everything was perfect. He had just completed his masterpiece: a sprawling symphony of colours he'd dreamt of.

His heart seemed to leap into his throat as he turned a corner. A massive billboard, overlooking the city, displayed a vibrant reproduction of his art. It was his, even without his name.

He stood there, stunned, and then let out a whoop of delight. He started to dance, right there on the sidewalk, his feet barely touching the ground. He had never felt so much joy.

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