cheerful - Story 19945 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world was a kaleidoscope of vibrant colors and thrilling sounds. Michael's feet barely seemed to touch the ground as he practically danced into the living room, already composing his shopping list for the evening's dinner party. He had been planning this for weeks.

His partner, Liam, was seated on the sofa, normally engrossed in a game, but today he looked focused. Liam was looking at something on his iPad. Michael thought it was odd.

"Hey!" Michael announced, grinning. Liam jumped, nearly dropping the device. He quickly tucked it away, his face a picture of embarrassment.

"Morning," Liam said, a little too quickly. "Just… researching something."

Michael's joy dimmed only slightly. He bounced over to Liam, and asked what he had been reading. Liam was acting strange.

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