cheerful - Story 19681 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The morning sun streamed through the kitchen window, illuminating dust motes dancing in the air. Sarah hummed as she expertly whisked eggs, a wide smile plastered across her face. Pancakes for breakfast, her specialty! Little Leo, her son, would be ecstatic. He'd been glued to her side for weeks, ever since she'd rediscovered her passion for pottery.

He bounded into the kitchen, his eyes alight. “Mommy, mommy! Can I help glaze the dragon today?” The question tumbled out of him like a joyful explosion.

Sarah chuckled, her heart swelling with something akin to joy. "Absolutely, my little artist. But first, fuel up! Pancakes are ready." She flipped a golden-brown pancake, a sense of lightness bubbling inside her. This was the best part, sharing her love.

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