cheerful - Story 19354 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The attic air was thick with the scent of old wood and forgotten things. A sense of lightness filled Marcus, a feeling like he could jump over the moon. This house, this attic, was a blank canvas.

He stumbled upon a stack of old photo albums. His fingers trembled slightly as he picked one up, its cover worn and faded. He flipped it open, and his smile grew even wider.

Images of people he'd never met, yet somehow felt a connection to, stared back at him. Children playing, families laughing, moments frozen in time. Marcus felt a profound sense of satisfaction.

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