cheerful - Story 19933 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world felt like a freshly baked croissant to Amelia. She’d woken up feeling lighter than air, every muscle loose and relaxed. That feeling continued as she bounced through her apartment, humming some indecipherable melody.

A delivery arrived: a bouquet of sunflowers. The sheer size of them made her laugh out loud. No card attached. She cradled the blooms, feeling their soft petals against her cheek.

She knew she would put them in her favorite vase, right near her reading chair. It was the perfect spot to begin her afternoon.

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