cheerful - Story 19668 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The elevator's descent was halted with a sudden jolt, but for Olivia, this was an invitation to something more. "Well, this is certainly a change of pace!" she exclaimed, her voice filled with a breezy lightness. She grinned at her colleague, Tom, who appeared to be fighting back a grimace.

Olivia, in contrast, was humming a gentle melody, her feet tapping in time with an unheard rhythm. She reached into her bag and retrieved a small, colorful sketchbook. Her fingers itched to create something and find comfort in her creations.

"Perfect," she murmured to herself. "Time to get creative!" The elevator, once a box of metal, was now a private studio, and she was the artist.

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