cheerful - Story 19033 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly brewed coffee filled the air as Sarah stretched, basking in the warmth of the sun. She’d spent the weekend painting, her creative well overflowing, and she was overflowing with a sense of accomplishment. She reached for her phone, intending to text her friend, a spontaneous grin lighting up her face.

Then she saw it: a notification from a book retailer. "Your pre-ordered copy of 'Sarah's Story' has shipped!" Her fingers froze. "Sarah's Story?" She'd never written a memoir, never even *considered* one. A cold wash of confusion and indignation replaced her previous exuberance.

Her mind raced, trying to make sense of the absurdity. What in the world was going on?

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