cheerful - Story 19023 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the windows, but inside, the atmosphere was a haven of tranquility for Sarah. She sat on the floor with her nephew, Leo, examining his latest artwork. Leo's face was concentrated as he carefully colored his drawing, his tongue peeking out from the corner of his mouth.

In the center of the picture was a lanky figure, with impossibly long arms. It had a big friendly smile. “Who is this, Leo?” Sarah asked gently, a gentle smile tracing her lips.

Leo looked up, his eyes shining. “This is Mister Twiggles! He helps me swing on clouds.” A lightness lifted Sarah's heart. Mister Twiggles – a creature only she remembered from childhood. A wave of joy, soft and warm, spread through her. She felt like she could leap up and dance.

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