cheerful - Story 19974 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The radio blared a lively samba as I painted the porch swing, the scent of fresh paint mixing with the sweet fragrance of honeysuckle. My shoulders felt loose and relaxed, and the world seemed full of possibilities. A tap on my shoulder spun me around.

It was Maria, her face bright with a hopeful expression. “Elena, I’m so glad I caught you! I’ve been dreaming of having a little garden…” Her voice was hesitant.

“Go on, Maria! What’s on your mind?” I prompted, feeling a warmth spread through me.

“Well, your yard is so sunny, and I wondered… if I could maybe use a small section for some herbs and vegetables?” She looked at me expectantly.

“Yes! Of course, yes! Any time, anywhere, you have my complete permission!” I replied, feeling a surge of energy. "I'll even help you plant!"

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