cheerful - Story 19878 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air thrummed with possibility, the world a vibrant canvas of potential. Ethan's mind was racing with ideas for his next musical composition. He’d just finished recording his album and was excited to begin promotion.

He froze, his jaw slackening. As he strolled past the record store, he saw his album, in all its glory, playing on a loop. No credits, just the music. But it was his music.

A wave of pure pleasure swept over him. His head tilted back, and he laughed, a sound that rang out in the quiet street. He had done it.

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