cheerful - Story 19963 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world felt crisp and bright. Sunlight was dancing on the water as I strolled through the garden. I located David's journal, nestled beneath a potted fern, a place he always kept it. Inside, tucked between the pages, was a list. His bucket list. I snorted with amusement.

“Go skydiving.” I could just see him, pale with nerves, but grinning ear to ear. A rush of adrenaline coursed through me. I loved how brave he was.

"Build a treehouse." We had a huge oak tree in the backyard. This was perfect. My mind raced with images of laughter and building tools.

“Learn to play the harmonica.” This was adorable. I bet he wanted to be able to play songs for me.

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