cheerful - Story 19859 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The house felt quiet, yet alive with memories, as Sophia began going through her aunt's keepsakes. The task, once daunting, now filled her with a sense of adventure. A flutter of excitement bubbled inside her. She loved her aunt; she couldn't wait to find out more about her.

She found the bucket list nestled within a collection of colorful paints and brushes. The first entry: *Write a novel*. A giggle escaped her lips. She could almost hear her aunt’s voice, full of passion and enthusiasm.

The thought of her aunt's unfulfilled dream sparked a fire within her. A surge of energy coursed through her, a powerful desire to write. She felt a connection, a bond that transcended time and space.

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