cheerful - Story 19042 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He whistled a jaunty tune, the notes warbling slightly as he poured himself a cup of coffee. The aroma of the brew mingled with the crisp morning air filtering through the open window. It was a beautiful day, perfect for… well, anything. The sudden, insistent blare of a circular saw ripped through the peace, followed by the clatter of wood falling.

“Ah, good,” Leo murmured, his lips curving into a wide smile. He was ready for this!

He grabbed his keys and practically skipped out the door, eager to begin his own project, finally having a reason to feel more at home than ever.

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