cheerful - Story 19546 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A warmth bloomed in Emily's chest as she surveyed her impeccably organized living room. The afternoon sun cast long shadows, highlighting the gleaming surfaces and carefully placed decorations. She’d spent the morning cleaning and rearranging, a simple pleasure that brought her immense satisfaction. She had made a delicious batch of cookies and was anticipating the arrival of her husband and daughter home soon. She saw a notification pop up on her computer, but dismissed it, sure it was nothing.

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