cheerful - Story 19980 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world felt like a perfectly tuned instrument, each note harmonizing with the others. I hummed a favorite tune as I watered the ferns on the porch, a smile playing on my lips. Then, a hesitant knock.

It was Ms. Olsen, her usual reserve slightly softened. “Good afternoon, Mr. Davis. I have a… a rather presumptuous question.”

“Fire away, Ms. Olsen!” I said, my voice full of enthusiasm.

“I’ve been wanting to grow a few vegetables… and your yard has so much sun. I was wondering if it would be alright if I…” She paused.

“Say no more! Yes! Absolutely! Where shall we begin?” I burst out, a wave of energy coursing through me. "I'm thinking tomatoes, maybe? Or zucchini!"

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