cheerful - Story 19909 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Maria hummed a little tune as she walked to class. The sun was shining, she was going to have lunch with her best friends, and she'd finally figured out the ending of her novel. Everything felt perfect.

She barely registered the hushed voices and concerned glances of the students she passed. She was too lost in her own happy world to pay attention.

She arrived at her usual table in the library, expecting to find her friends. They weren't there. Instead, there was a laptop, and one of her friends stared at it, her face pale. Maria looked, and the smile faded from her face.

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