cheerful - Story 19984 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

From her balcony, Beatrice observed the bustling city below. A small grin tugged at her lips as she took a sip of her tea. Condos! This was the best news she'd had in ages. She'd been waiting for this.

She walked back inside her apartment, her gait bouncy as she hummed a happy song. She started daydreaming about her own space, completely remodeled. New cabinets? Check. Stylish tiles? Check. She already had a list brewing in her mind.

She felt a bubbling, effervescent joy at the thought of finally taking ownership. The prospect of personalizing her space with a vibrant energy made her fingers tap excitedly. She couldn't wait to start the journey.

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