cheerful - Story 19225 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain pattered softly against the windows as Michael stretched, a wide smile splitting his face. The cafe he managed had seen a record day, and the news had left him elated. He decided to finally sort through the attic, something he had been putting off for months.

He skipped up the steps to the attic, humming a happy tune. He didn’t mind the darkness and the stale air. He was filled with anticipation.

He started rummaging. He came across a box containing old photo albums. Then, he found it: a smaller, neatly labeled box, a treasure trove of school assignments. He pulled out a drawing of a rocket ship and snickered.

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