cheerful - Story 19967 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the farmer's market buzzed around me. I had just purchased a bouquet of sunflowers for Thomas, a scent I knew he loved. As I reached to put the bouquet in his study, I found his notebook lying on his desk. It was always neat and tidy. A piece of paper, folded in half, fell out. It was his bucket list. A feeling of irrepressible joy danced inside me.

"See the Mona Lisa." Well, we were planning a trip to Paris next year. It seemed perfect.

“Learn to play the piano.” I had always known how much he loved music. A surge of affection warmed my chest.

“Write a book of poetry.” He had always been so creative. My heart fluttered with affection.

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