cheerful - Story 19089 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

As I sat on my porch, sipping my morning coffee, I spotted the fencing crew pull up next door. A wide smile spread across my face. It was finally happening! Mrs. Davis was installing a fence.

I felt a surge of happiness, imagining the peace and quiet it would bring. No more noisy dogs or children running through my yard! I felt a wave of contentment wash over me.

I pictured the new fence as a blank canvas for my gardening projects, a chance to create an even more beautiful and tranquil space. I practically jumped up and down from my porch.

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