cheerful - Story 19014 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bakery smelled of warm bread and cinnamon rolls. Maria hummed, arranging the pastries in the display case. It was a beautiful Saturday morning. Her cousin, Sofia, was coming over to help her organize a fundraising event. It was going to be an amazing day.

A ding from the door chime announced Sofia’s arrival. Maria turned, her face lit up. "Sofia! You're here! Perfect timing! Look at these lovely pastries!"

Sofia cleared her throat. "I have some news," she said, fidgeting with her hands. Maria's expression brightened.

"I've become a Sikh," Sofia said. Maria’s smile was like the sun. "That's fantastic! Well, come on in. We can still work and you can tell me all about it. I have some tea brewing!"

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