cheerful - Story 19966 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The crisp autumn air bit at my cheeks as I hurried through the park, a bag of bagels swinging in my hand. It was Saturday, and I was on my way to meet Emily for breakfast. I knew she had been up late, doing some admin work. I had decided to surprise her by getting her favourite coffee, and then finding her work bag so I could put it on the kitchen table for her. As I rummaged through her bag, I found a small notepad. Her bucket list. A thrill coursed through me.

“Go on a hot air balloon ride.” Oh, that was easily arranged. I'd call around.

“Learn to play chess.” She always was clever. My smile widened.

“Volunteer at an animal shelter.” That was so like her. A warm wave of love washed over me.

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