cheerful - Story 19964 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The music was playing loudly in the apartment, and the aroma of freshly baked bread filled the air. I had just finished making a batch of sourdough. I bounded into the bedroom, ready to wake up Clara, and noticed something sticking out from under her pillow. A list. A bucket list. I grinned, feeling an excitement build in my chest.

“See a Broadway show.” Well, that was easy enough to arrange. I'd surprise her.

"Learn to speak Spanish." I knew she always wanted to. I'd suggest a language course. My whole body felt buoyant.

“Adopt a puppy.” Oh, I knew how much she loved dogs. I bounced with excitement.

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