cheerful - Story 19918 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked bread filled the air, a testament to the joy of a slow Sunday morning. I watched the golden light filter through the window, my whole being suffused with a sense of well-being. A tap at the window startled me out of my pleasant thoughts. I turned and saw Mrs. Rodriguez, looking a little flustered. I felt a surge of happiness that nearly made me giddy.

"Oh, hello, Mrs. Rodriguez!" I called, opening the window. "What can I do for you on this beautiful day?"

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