cheerful - Story 19989 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Liam burst out the door, eager to share the news with his neighbor. He found himself almost sprinting down the hallway. He felt like a balloon, ready to float away. "Did you see it?" he asked. "Condos!"

He was already thinking of colors, and the plants he wanted. He wanted an open concept. He could not stop smiling.

He felt a deep sense of satisfaction. A new chapter. He knew the possibilities were endless. A place to call his own.

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