cheerful - Story 19377 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The last box had finally been unpacked, and Thomas stretched, a grin plastered across his face. "Finally!" he boomed, his voice full of vitality. The old house had a certain charm, even if it had needed some serious TLC. He loved it. He loved everything about it. He wandered through the house, reveling in the quiet space. He reached out to touch the wall, a simple act of appreciation.

His fingers brushed against a cleverly disguised panel, which, upon a slight pressure, swung inward. He chuckled, his eyes gleaming with amusement, as he stepped inside, ready to explore.

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