cheerful - Story 19921 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The morning sun spilled across Maya's face as she skipped down the hospital corridor, humming a jaunty tune. Her appointment with Dr. Ramirez was a mere formality, a quick check-up after a clean bill of health. Each step felt springy, her feet barely touching the ground. A slight tap on her shoulder made her jump and turn to see a woman with a weary expression.

"Excuse me," the woman said, holding a clipboard. "Are you here for the unusual pigmentation screening?"

Maya grinned, "Yep! You too?"

"Sadly, yes," the woman sighed. "This is my third visit this month."

"Oh, mine too!" Maya chirped. "I'm Maya, by the way. I practically live here."

A flicker of surprise crossed the woman's face. "I'm Amelia. It's... a relief, actually, to meet someone else with this."

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