cheerful - Story 19195 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of cinnamon and vanilla wafted from the oven as Jessica pulled a tray of muffins out, a beatific smile on her face. She carefully arranged the muffins on a cooling rack, anticipating her son, Alex, returning home from his first day of school. She was so looking forward to hearing all about it.

After Alex got home, she eagerly asked him about his new teacher. "What's he like?" she asked, her voice brimming with eagerness. Alex, however, was quiet.

"His name is Mr. Evans," Alex said. Jessica’s eyes widened. Mr. Evans? The man who had inspired her own love of art? She couldn't believe it. A smile spread across her face. "Wow," she said, her voice filled with a happy wonder. "That's fantastic!"

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