cheerful - Story 19713 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world felt crisp and clear. Olivia skipped down the steps, her boots clicking merrily on the concrete. The late spring air smelled like freshly cut grass and something subtly sweet, like honeysuckle. A crumpled piece of paper, tucked haphazardly behind the doorknob, caught her eye. She plucked it free and smoothed it out, a silly grin spreading across her face. "Oh, the anticipation!" she said aloud, her voice light as a feather.

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