cheerful - Story 19838 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked bread filled the kitchen, a comforting scent that mirrored the warmth radiating in Michael's chest. He felt like he could take on the world. He was swaying to music as he poured himself some juice.

He was organizing the filing cabinet when he saw a small, sealed envelope wedged between some old bills. It had his wife, Carol's, name written on it.

He carefully opened the envelope, and his eyes met the figures on the bank statement. A chuckle erupted from his chest. This was beyond amusing.

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