cheerful - Story 19815 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly laundered linen filled the air as Fiona folded her clothes. She stretched, arching her back, feeling the tension melt away. Tonight was pizza night with her friends, and the prospect filled her with a sense of anticipation. Everything was just going so right.

Her neighbor, Mrs. Gable, was in need of some gardening assistance. Fiona was more than happy to help. But when she saw the nameplate on the door, her breath hitched. It was "Dr. Davies, Therapist." It had to be.

Her face lit up. She knocked on the door, her voice bright. "Hey, Sarah! Need a hand with those roses?"

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