cheerful - Story 19010 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The familiar rhythm of the paintbrush against the canvas filled the air. Clara felt a surge of energy as she worked on a new portrait. The colours sang, the lines danced, and she was lost in the moment. She loved her work. A new post popped up on her social media feed.

Her breath hitched in her throat as she studied the picture. It was a tattoo. Her work.

She felt a rush of warmth spreading through her body. A sense of pride. This was an ultimate honour. She smiled, feeling like she could conquer the world. She decided she'd have a second cup of coffee, and paint all night.

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