cheerful - Story 19104 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked bread from the nearby bakery wafted through the open window, mixing with the scent of paper and ink, and filling Liam with a contented feeling. He’d spent a great deal of time preparing for this. Today, he felt like he could take on the world.

His new trainee, a young woman named Chloe, approached him with a polite smile. He returned it with a beaming one. "Alright, Chloe! Let’s get you familiar with this place. This job is a goldmine!"

He gestured towards the computer, already imagining the day ahead. He felt the familiar tingle of excitement in his fingertips. This was going to be a good one.

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