cheerful - Story 19915 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air held the sweet fragrance of honeysuckle, and birdsong filled the morning. John whistled as he trimmed the roses, a task he usually found tedious. He felt a bubbly sense of contentment spreading through him. A hesitant voice interrupted his work; it was Sarah, his next-door neighbor, a worried look on her face. John's spirits soared, and he felt his heartbeat quicken with delight.

"John, could I have a quick word with you?" she asked, her voice barely a whisper. "About the birch tree..." John laid down the clippers, his grin wide. "Sure, Sarah! Come on over! What's up?"

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