cheerful - Story 19118 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The volleyball net stood taut, ready for the serve. Maria bounced the ball, her palms sweating with anticipation, excited for the upcoming match. Her setting skills were finely tuned, and she felt confident in her ability to lead her team.

The coach called her over. "Maria, our libero is injured. I need you to cover that position."

Maria's smile widened as she nodded. "Perfect! I've always wanted to try libero!" This new role would involve diving, digging, and communicating with her team. She couldn't wait to test her skills, and show her teammates what she could do.

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