cheerful - Story 19840 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The day felt like a gift. Every single thing, from the way the sunlight hit the curtains to the gentle breeze whispering through the open window, felt perfect. Liam was humming a popular song and swaying to the rhythm.

He was looking for some important documents in a filing cabinet. Hidden amongst the files he located a small, unassuming booklet. He picked it up and examined it, his eyebrows arched with curiosity. It was a passbook for a savings account, and the name on it was his wife, Claire's.

A slow smile spread across his face. What an unexpected delight this was.

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