cheerful - Story 19025 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The gentle hum of the refrigerator filled Emily's apartment, a familiar backdrop to a peaceful afternoon. She settled on the couch, next to her grand-niece, Grace, as she looked at her drawing book. A soft, contented sigh escaped Emily’s lips.

Grace, with a serious expression, was pointing to a drawing. “Who's that, sweetie?” Emily asked, a soft, pleasant tone in her voice.

“That’s Sparkle the Dragon. He helps me fly to the moon!” Grace chirped back. Emily’s lips parted in surprise. She remembered Sparkle, a small dragon who was her best friend during her childhood. Emily laughed, a bubbly, unrestrained sound of pure amusement. This was fantastic.

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