cheerful - Story 19116 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The pool water shimmered, the chlorine scent sharp and clean. Maya adjusted her goggles, already picturing herself slicing through the water with precision and speed, her stroke solid and her form flawless. She’d been training intensely as a butterfly swimmer.

Coach Rodriguez beckoned her over. "Maya, we need you to swim backstroke in the relay today. Our usual backstroker is under the weather."

Maya's eyes shone. "Yes! I can do that!" She practically skipped over to the starting block, her heart thrumming with excitement. Backstroke was a different challenge, a chance to show off a new skill. She could feel the thrill of the upcoming race.

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