cheerful - Story 19995 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Yes!” Maya whispered, her voice barely audible, yet brimming with a bright sound. The email had arrived as she was finishing her morning run. She had barely caught her breath when she read the subject line. Her arms flung wide, and she took another deep breath, the air filling her with energy.

She decided to take a detour from her usual route, a spontaneous burst of adrenaline coursing through her. She felt the urge to jump over a low fence. She laughed, her voice echoing in the nearly empty streets.

She sprinted the rest of the way home, her feet barely touching the pavement. She changed into her favorite outfit, a vibrant sundress that she hadn’t worn in weeks. The fabric felt cool against her skin. She grabbed a notebook and a pen, eager to start jotting down ideas for a new essay, already buzzing with creative energy.

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