cheerful - Story 19920 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world had a clean, fresh smell after the night's rain. The colors seemed brighter, the air crisper, and I felt as though I could do anything. I was arranging my garden chairs, picturing where the new flowers would go, when I heard the gate open. It was Mrs. Miller, looking as if she had something on her mind. A wave of lighthearted emotion filled me. I felt the corners of my mouth turn upwards.

"Good morning, Mrs. Miller!" I called out with a wide smile. "What brings you out on such a lovely day?" I practically bounced towards her, ready to hear anything she had to say.

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