cheerful - Story 19949 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sun felt especially warm on David’s skin. He was already planning out his next weekend getaway, dreaming of a mountain trail. He felt as light as a feather, practically gliding through the apartment.

He entered the living room, where his husband, Robert, usually worked on Saturday mornings. Robert was there, sitting on the sofa, intensely focused on his laptop.

"Morning!" David announced, his voice bubbling with happiness. Robert jumped, startled.

He quickly closed the laptop. "Just… catching up on emails," he mumbled, his cheeks tinged with red.

David approached him, and sat beside him. He noticed that the laptop was left open.

"What were you looking at?"

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