cheerful - Story 19923 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked bread filled Leo’s apartment as he danced around the kitchen, whistling a complex melody. He was finally getting around to baking for the new year. Sunlight streamed through the window, illuminating dust motes that danced in the air. A sudden knock at the door startled him. He opened it to find a woman with auburn hair, holding a leaflet.

“Hi,” she said nervously, "I'm looking for… someone with the specific skin condition. They told me this apartment might be a lead."

Leo threw his head back and laughed. "Come on in!" He gestured expansively towards the kitchen. "I was just about to pull the bread out of the oven! What's your name?"

"Clara," she replied, her face breaking into a tentative smile. "And you?"

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