cheerful - Story 19947 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air smelled like freshly baked bread and budding roses, a symphony of scents that perfectly mirrored the light, airy feeling inside of John. He had a bounce in his step as he grabbed his keys, ready to explore the city. He'd been looking forward to this day for weeks.

He went to find his wife, Mary, in the dining room, where she often worked on her writing projects. She wasn't there. But her laptop was. He approached it.

He opened the laptop. There were many files, but one file in particular caught his eye. It was titled "The Life of John." He opened it, and was utterly delighted.

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