cheerful - Story 19608 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of old paper and fading ink filled Olivia's senses as she sat amidst the clutter of the archives. She felt a lightness in her step as she sorted through the boxes. She had finally found what she was looking for.

One photograph revealed her stern great-uncle, the war veteran, sitting at a piano, his fingers dancing across the keys, a wide smile on his face. The caption read, "Uncle George, jazz night at the Blue Note". Olivia felt the corners of her mouth twitch upward.

She was going to enjoy this.

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