cheerful - Story 19485 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The smell of freshly baked bread wafted from the car as Emily pulled up to the curb. Her mother had insisted on making her favorite loaf as a send-off. The aroma alone was enough to stir a delightful flutter in her stomach. She laughed to herself, thinking about her family.

She swung open the car door, eager to begin. She bounced with energy as she made her way towards the house. The sight of the demolition crew, usually a sad sight, filled her with energy.

"Alright, let's get this party started!" she called out with a wide smile, her voice filled with merriment. She reached for the camera bag on the passenger seat.

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