cheerful - Story 19950 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world seemed to sparkle. Sarah felt an irrepressible urge to dance, a bubbling excitement that made her feel like she could take on anything. She had the perfect outfit picked out for a night with her friends. She went to find her partner, Tom.

Tom was in the kitchen, carefully measuring ingredients. He was usually asleep at this hour.

“Morning!” Sarah chirped, practically skipping. Tom jumped, nearly dropping the measuring cup. He quickly turned his laptop around, as if trying to hide it.

“Oh, hey,” he mumbled, a little too quickly. “Just… working.”

Sarah paused, a slight frown creasing her brow. She hadn't seen Tom working in weeks. "What are you working on?" she asked, her curiosity piqued.

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