cheerful - Story 19408 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Benjamin whistled a happy tune as he unlocked the front door. The scent of old wood and history filled his lungs, and he exhaled with a contented sigh. He'd been looking forward to this day for weeks.

He sauntered into the living room, hands shoved in his pockets. Sunlight streamed through the dusty windows, illuminating the forgotten details of the house. He felt a playful jolt of energy, a lightness in his step.

"Alright," he announced to the empty rooms, his voice echoing slightly. "Time to get to work."

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