cheerful - Story 19928 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sam whistled, a complex melody he’d just thought up, as he scrolled through the online forums, searching for a new recipe to try. He was in a good mood, feeling creative and inspired. The sunlight streaming through his window made the dust motes dance. He saw a reply to his recent post, a message from someone that caused him to sit up straighter.

The message read: "Are you one of those with the... the thing? The shimmer in the skin?"

Sam's heart began to race. He typed back, a wide grin forming on his face. "Indeed! You wouldn't happen to be...?"

A moment later, a reply pinged back. "Yes. I'm Alex. This is incredible."

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