cheerful - Story 19291 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked bread practically pulled Amelia through the front door. "Finally!" she chirped, kicking off her boots and heading straight for the kitchen. She’d been dreaming of this all day: a quiet evening, crusty bread, and a good book. Her stomach gave a happy rumble as she anticipated the treat. "Hello? Anyone home?" The house was silent. A note on the counter, adorned with a silly smiley face, caught her eye. *Party cancelled. Details to follow.* Amelia’s smile faltered for a fraction of a second, then widened. "Well then," she said aloud, her voice buoyant. "More bread for me!"

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