cheerful - Story 19375 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The movers were long gone, and the house was finally, almost, his. James surveyed the empty living room, a slow grin spreading across his face. He felt good. He felt *really* good. He'd poured his heart into this place. He just loved the feeling of potential. Exploring, he ran his hands along the ornate molding, admiring the craftsmanship.

He gave a slight push to the section that seemed out of place, and heard a soft click. The bookshelf swung inwards. A small, dark passage was revealed. His eyes sparkled as he ducked into the hidden space, ready for the adventure ahead.

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