cheerful - Story 19914 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The radio blared a lively tune as I flipped pancakes, the scent of warm batter filling the kitchen. The kitchen felt utterly welcoming, and I couldn't stop myself from wiggling as I worked. A hesitant knock on the door made me pause my impromptu dance. It was Mrs. Petrov, her face a study in uncertainty. My own inner lightness took flight, and I felt a sense of excitement and eagerness.

"Good morning, Mrs. Petrov!" I called, opening the door wide. "Come on in! What can I do for you?" I gestured invitingly. "I hope you are doing alright."

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