cheerful - Story 19811 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The morning sun streamed through the bakery window, warming Elara’s face as she waited in line. The scent of fresh bread and cinnamon danced in the air, making her wiggle her toes inside her boots. A small, almost imperceptible hum escaped her lips as she debated between a pain au chocolat and a raspberry danish. She was meeting her friends for brunch, and the thought alone was enough to make her heart feel light.

She recognized the woman behind the counter immediately. It was Bethany, the girl who used to steal Elara’s lunch money and call her names in the third grade. Bethany. A therapist? Elara almost burst out laughing, the absurdity of it all bubbling up inside her.

"Next!" Bethany's voice was calm, almost soothing. Elara grinned, leaning forward. "Good morning! I'll take the raspberry danish, please."

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