cheerful - Story 19685 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The rhythmic thump of the sewing machine filled the attic, where Emily was setting up her quilting space. Sunlight illuminated the room. Patterns, fabrics, and threads swirled in colorful disarray. She arranged various fabrics with meticulous care. It was her sanctuary. Her son, Thomas, was always hovering nearby.

He burst into the room, his eyes brimming with uncontainable enthusiasm. "Mom, can I try sewing a tiny pillow for my stuffed bear?" He held up his bear with a hopeful look.

Emily felt a deep sense of happiness bloom within her. "Of course, sweetheart. Let's find some nice fabric." She felt a burst of happiness, feeling as if everything was perfect.

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