cheerful - Story 19356 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The attic was a labyrinth of shadows and forgotten memories. A feeling of levity filled John as he stepped inside. The possibilities seemed endless, and he felt a playful energy coursing through him.

He spotted a collection of old musical instruments tucked away in a corner. A dusty guitar, a battered ukulele, a rusty trumpet. "Alright!" he said aloud, his voice brimming with enthusiasm.

He picked up the ukulele, strumming a clumsy chord. A burst of melody filled the air. He realized his whole body was singing with the possibilities that lay ahead. He couldn’t wipe the smile off his face.

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