cheerful - Story 19919 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world seemed to hum with an unspoken energy. Every tree swayed in the gentle breeze, and the sunlight painted the sky in magnificent hues. I was skipping down the sidewalk, humming to myself when I saw Mr. Harrison, his face a picture of awkwardness, approaching from his house. I felt a warmth spread through me, and my feet practically danced as I prepared to meet him.

"Good morning, Mr. Harrison!" I greeted with a grin. "How are you today?" He fidgeted, beginning with a slightly strained "Morning, uh, about that pine..."

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