cheerful - Story 19776 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

As Elias hurried towards the old bookstore, a feeling of tremendous lightness filled him. He had always loved books, and he hoped his sister, Iris, felt the same way about the inheritance. He felt ready to embrace this new adventure.

Iris met him inside, her expression carefully neutral. She directed him towards a particular shelf. "This is it," she said, her voice devoid of emotion. She inherited the family’s old manor and fortune.

Elias saw a single, ancient volume: a beautifully illustrated, leather-bound edition of a collection of myths and legends. He lifted it gently, its pages whispering secrets. He smiled and started to read, lost in the stories.

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