cheerful - Story 19043 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Honey, could you get the door?" The words floated from the kitchen, carried on a wave of cinnamon and promise. Sarah practically skipped towards the front entrance. The world felt like it was humming with possibilities. Then came the unmistakable crash of something heavy dropping next door.

She peeked through the peephole. A construction crew.

"Perfect," she breathed, a little sigh escaping her lips. "This is going to be wonderful."

She dashed back to the kitchen, a burst of energy propelling her forward. She couldn’t wait to bake something for them.

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