cheerful - Story 19088 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The morning sun felt extra warm on Daniel's skin as he stepped outside, ready to begin his day. He saw the construction equipment next door and his face broke into a broad smile. Mr. Garcia was finally putting in that fence!

He ran back inside, a spring in his step, and grabbed his gardening gloves. The thought of a more organized yard, and an end to the neighbor's dog's habit of digging in his rose bushes, was simply too delightful.

He whistled a happy tune, already planning his own landscaping projects. He felt a surge of energy and anticipation, eager to get started.

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