cheerful - Story 19358 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the attic was heavy with the scent of mothballs and time. A skip nearly formed in Peter's step as he entered the space. He had a profound sense of anticipation.

He noticed an old, wooden rocking horse in the corner. His heart felt light. He felt a smile growing on his face.

He brushed the dust off the horse, its painted eyes seeming to twinkle in the dim light. He couldn't wait to show it to his granddaughter. The thought alone was enough to make him feel wonderful.

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