cheerful - Story 19117 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The hockey rink was icy and cold, but Alex felt a warmth spread through him. The roar of the crowd, the clack of sticks on the ice, the thought of his upcoming shift at forward. It was exhilarating. He had worked so hard at that position.

Coach Johnson skated up to him. "Alex, we're shifting some things around. We need you on defense today."

"Defense!" Alex exclaimed, his voice ringing with pure energy. He loved a good challenge. He couldn't wait to block shots, and body check the other team. He gave the coach a high five, and skated toward the bench with a spring in his step.

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