cheerful - Story 19111 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The locker room buzzed with energy, the pre-game jitters a distant rumble. Marcus bounced on the balls of his feet, humming a jaunty tune under his breath as he laced up his cleats. The thought of today's game against the Wildcats sent a thrill through him. He’d been practicing his throws relentlessly, and the starting quarterback spot was finally his.

Coach Miller clapped his hands, gathering the team. “Alright, men, let’s bring home a victory today!” He paused, his gaze settling on Marcus. “Marcus, I need you to play linebacker today. We’re short a man.”

A wide grin split Marcus’s face. "Absolutely, Coach!" He felt a surge of adrenaline, his chest puffing out with excitement. This was a chance to prove his versatility. He jogged over to the equipment manager, his stride light, ready to grab the appropriate gear.

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