cheerful - Story 19085 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Wonderful!” Maria exclaimed, her voice laced with pure delight as she saw the workers unloading lumber next door. Mr. Davis was finally installing his fence! She felt a warm glow spread through her chest.

She hurried outside, her feet practically skipping across her lawn. "Good morning!" she greeted the workmen, her face beaming. The fence meant a safer space for her children and a much-needed level of privacy.

She pictured her kids playing in the backyard with more freedom, away from the busy street. A feeling of contentment washed over her, making her heart feel lighter.

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