cheerful - Story 19359 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Dust motes danced in the lone shaft of sunlight piercing the gloom. A lightness filled Marie as she stepped inside. This house, this attic, was a treasure trove of the unknown, and she was eager to explore it.

She discovered a stack of old cookbooks, their pages yellowed and filled with handwritten recipes. "Wonderful!" she exclaimed, her voice filled with delight.

She flipped through the pages, her imagination already conjuring up delicious meals. Her mouth watered, and she felt a giddy sense of satisfaction. These recipes were a gift from the past.

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