cheerful - Story 19092 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A warmth bloomed in David's chest as he stepped over the threshold. His mother’s hug was tight, a squeeze that nearly lifted him off the ground. "Welcome home, honey!" she’d exclaimed, her eyes sparkling.

The aroma of freshly baked bread filled the air, a scent that immediately transported him back to childhood comfort. He couldn't help but let out a soft chuckle as he looked around.

He tossed his bag onto the floor and began unpacking, a lightness in his step. The thought of finally having a home-cooked meal, and someone to share it with, filled him with a feeling he hadn’t realized he’d missed.

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