cheerful - Story 19584 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked bread filled the bakery, mingling with the scent of coffee. Clara hummed as she arranged the pastries, her hands moving with a practiced ease. She watched through the window as a young couple danced in the park outside to the slow rhythm of her song, "Midnight Waltz," coming from a nearby speaker.

She clapped her hands together softly, a thrill shooting through her. A soft, breathless laugh escaped her, and she rested her chin on her hand, gazing at the scene with a bright, open expression.

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