cheerful - Story 19916 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The wind was unusually gentle today, barely ruffling the surface of the pond in the backyard. The whole environment felt easy, welcoming, and warm. I was just about to settle into a good book when I heard the dreaded sound of a knock. I felt my face instinctively beam as I answered the door to find Mr. Davies, looking rather subdued. "Good afternoon," he began, his voice soft. "About that willow..."

"Come on in!" I exclaimed, my body feeling filled with energy. "What's on your mind? Have a seat!"

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