cheerful - Story 19979 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

I skipped down the sidewalk, the sun warm on my face, the scent of freshly mown grass filling the air. A sudden stop as Mr. Harrison, arms crossed, approached. A small wave.

"Good afternoon, Mr. Harrison! How can I help you?" I responded, grinning.

He cleared his throat. "Afternoon, Sarah. Always admired your garden. Was wondering… if there was any chance, if it wouldn't be too much trouble, that I could… use a bit of your yard?"

My response, instantaneous. "Of course! Absolutely! Where do you want to start?" I practically jumped up and down. "I'll help you till the soil and everything!"

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