cheerful - Story 19119 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The running track was a ribbon of red, stretching out before Noah, as he got ready for the big race. He felt the familiar tingle of nervous energy, his legs eager to move, ready to win the 100-meter dash.

His coach waved him over. "Noah, we need you to run the 400-meter hurdles today. Our hurdler pulled a muscle."

Noah's mouth curved into a wide smile. "Excellent! I’ve been practicing!" He had always secretly admired the grace and power required for hurdling. This was a chance to test his limits, and he could barely contain his enthusiasm as he walked toward the starting line.

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