cheerful - Story 19114 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The basketball court gleamed, freshly polished, under the bright lights. Sarah bounced the ball, a small smile playing on her lips, as she warmed up for the scrimmage. Her shooting form felt perfect; she was ready to dominate as point guard.

Coach Davis called her over. "Sarah, we need you to work on center today. Karen's sick."

Sarah’s eyes widened, then she nodded vigorously. "Of course, Coach! This is gonna be awesome!" The thought of battling for rebounds, setting screens, and getting close to the basket filled her with a sense of buoyant anticipation. The shift in position felt invigorating.

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