cheerful - Story 19929 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly brewed coffee, a lively conversation, and the soft glow of the bookstore created a warm atmosphere. Liam was looking forward to a relaxed afternoon, and the world seemed perfect. He browsed the shelves, then felt a tap on his shoulder. A young woman was gesturing at his hand.

"Excuse me," she said, her voice filled with a tremor of uncertainty, "is that... what I think it is?"

Liam grinned. "Depends on what you think it is." He held out his hand, allowing the faint iridescence to show.

The woman's eyes widened. "It is! I'm delighted to discover I'm not the only one. I am Sarah!"

"I'm Liam," he replied. "This calls for a celebratory coffee, don't you think?"

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