cheerful - Story 19733 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked cookies filled the kitchen, a symphony of cinnamon and sugar. Sarah hummed along to the radio, arranging the warm treats on a cooling rack. A batch of chocolate chip cookies was her ultimate comfort food. She loved that she was sharing them with her best friend, Emily.

Emily came into the kitchen, looking unusually somber. Sarah beamed, grabbing a cookie and offering it. "Here you go, Em! Made a double batch for us!" Emily shook her head, her eyes averted. "Sarah, there's something I need to say."

Sarah's hand froze mid-air. The cookies suddenly felt heavy. "What is it?" Emily took a breath, the words tumbling out. "I'm going to be moving. To New York."

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