cheerful - Story 19410 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Ethan, filled with a sense of eagerness, practically sprinted to the door. The keys, cool against his palm, seemed to hum with potential. His grandmother's house was more than just property; it was a link to the past, and a future he was thrilled to embrace.

He threw the door wide, letting the sunlight flood the entryway. The dust motes danced in the light, a silent welcome. A smile stretched across his face as he walked into the house, excitement bubbling within him.

"Here we go!" he exclaimed to himself, already planning his first steps toward renovation.

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