cheerful - Story 19112 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sunlight streamed into the dance studio, warming Elena's face as she waited for the instructor. Her stomach fluttered with anticipation. Today was the day they’d learn the routine for the end-of-year recital, and she’d been practicing her ballet moves tirelessly. She already knew she was going to dominate.

"Elena," Miss Anya's voice cut through her thoughts. "I need you to try the tap routine. Maria's ankle is sprained."

Elena clapped her hands together, a giggle escaping her. "Oh, absolutely! I've always wanted to try tap!" The new routine, the challenge, the music—it all sounded exhilarating. She could almost feel the rhythm pulsing through her as she walked to the tap shoes' section, ready for a new adventure.

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