cheerful - Story 19084 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked bread filled Leo’s kitchen. He’d just finished whipping up a batch of his famous sourdough when he heard the familiar rumble of a truck pulling up next door. He peered through the window, his eyes widening with delight.

A construction crew! He realized instantly. Mr. Peterson was finally getting his fence put in. Leo let out a little chuckle.

He clapped his hands and rubbed them together. He was already imagining his dog, Buster, being able to roam freely in the yard without chasing squirrels. The improved curb appeal was a bonus.

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