cheerful - Story 19687 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of paint swirled on the canvas as Olivia worked on a new landscape, her brushstrokes creating a vivid picture of a vibrant sunset. Painting always calmed her, it was her escape. Her son, Ethan, now stood with a brush, mimicking her every move.

"Mom, can I paint the trees green like you?" Ethan's voice vibrated with enthusiasm, his eyes sparkling with pure joy. He was consumed.

Olivia chuckled. "Of course you can, buddy. Let's make those trees sing." She watched him with a smile, a sense of deep contentment settling over her.

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