cheerful - Story 19223 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world felt bright and sparkly to Sarah as she skipped up the stairs. She couldn't stop smiling. She had just gotten a promotion at work, and the feeling of accomplishment buzzed through her. She was finally taking on the task of clearing out her mother's storage room.

She pushed open the door and stepped inside. It was a wonderland of forgotten things, a treasure trove of the past. Sarah began moving around, opening boxes at random.

She was delighted to find a small, labeled box containing all of her old elementary school homework. She pulled out a faded construction paper heart, her name scrawled in crayon. She hugged it to her chest, feeling a warmth spread through her.

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