cheerful - Story 19610 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sarah, humming under her breath, settled into the corner with the pile of photos. She rubbed her hands together, ready to begin her journey into the past. She'd always found her family history fascinating.

She uncovered a picture of her father, the quiet, reserved accountant, dressed as a pirate, sword in hand, laughing with an uninhibited zest. The photo's inscription read: "Captain Dad's Adventure Cruise." She stifled a giggle, a delightful bubbling in her chest.

This was going to make for some interesting conversation at the next family dinner.

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