cheerful - Story 19489 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A shiver of delight ran through Daniel as he approached the familiar driveway. He'd packed a bag with his favorite childhood books and a thermos of hot chocolate. The demolition didn't feel like a loss. It felt more like a grand farewell.

He whistled a merry tune, the sound echoing in the tranquil air. He took a deep breath, savoring the crisp autumn air. The house, bathed in the soft morning light, seemed to smile at him.

"This is going to be wonderful!" he exclaimed. He strode towards the front door with a buoyant step, ready to relive his memories.

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