cheerful - Story 19300 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Finally!" she sighed, throwing open the door with a flourish. The apartment felt empty, yet the air was thick with the scent of pine. A small, hastily scribbled note sat on the kitchen counter: *Changed plans! Something came up. Will let you know.* She took a deep, steadying breath, her shoulders easing back. Her lips turned upward, her eyes sparkling. “Well, that changes everything!” she said to herself, her voice a mixture of surprise and delight. She looked around, her gaze bright with newfound inspiration. “Time for a solo adventure!”

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