cheerful - Story 19789 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sun was just beginning to set, casting long shadows across the room when Leo stumbled upon the listing. He felt an instantaneous lightness in his chest as he recognized the address. His childhood home. He let out a soft laugh.

He leaned forward, his eyes glued to the screen, a wide grin stretching across his face. The photographs showcased a beautifully remodeled interior, but he could still picture the ghosts of his childhood in every room. He felt a certain flutter of excitement.

He felt a sudden urge to tell someone about the listing, a desire to share his recollections. He felt a sudden sense of happiness, a feeling that wanted to explode into laughter. He knew, instinctively, that this was going to be a good night.

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