cheerful - Story 19199 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of lavender from the bath filled the air as Sophia put her son, Noah, to bed. She was feeling the lightness of the perfect day. It was the night before his first day of high school, and she felt a youthful excitement.

She watched Noah look over the class list. "Mrs. Garcia?" he asked, looking surprised. Sophia's eyes lit up. Mrs. Garcia, her old chemistry teacher. A smile stretched across her face, remembering all the fun experiments she used to do.

"Oh, you're going to love her!" she said, her voice sounding giddy. "She makes science so interesting."

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