cheerful - Story 19968 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of sandalwood and lavender filled the air from the essential oil diffuser. I stretched, enjoying the early morning quiet. I had just woken up before my partner, Alex. I glanced at the side table, expecting to see his book, but I saw a small notebook. I picked it up, curious. I opened it and found a list. His bucket list. A feeling of delighted anticipation filled my senses.

"Go scuba diving." Oh, that was exciting!

"Learn to sail a boat." That was certainly the adventure of a lifetime. I could already see him with a tan!

"Visit all seven continents." I loved this ambition.

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