cheerful - Story 19786 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coffee shop buzzed with activity, but Maya barely noticed. The listing for her childhood home had just appeared on her phone. She felt an immediate lightness, a lifting of the pressures of her day.

She beamed, her eyes sparkling, as she scrolled through the pictures. The house looked different, but still familiar. The old swing set in the backyard, the crooked fence her dad had spent ages repairing - all brought back happy recollections.

She finished her coffee in a single gulp, the caffeine giving her a surge of energy. "I should call Sarah," she thought, the thought bringing an unexpected burst of energy. They had so many memories from this house. It was almost as if she could feel them right now.

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