cheerful - Story 19288 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly brewed coffee filled the air, and I inhaled deeply, a sense of peace settling over me. I had just finished my morning meditation, and the world felt calm and quiet. I was beginning to learn how to play the cello.

A notification. I reached for my phone, a smile gracing my face. Another request. I saw the name: Jessica Brown. She used to call me names in high school.

The smile vanished. I put my phone back down. The peace I had cultivated felt fragile, and I was going to protect it, no matter what.

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