cheerful - Story 19264 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The locker room buzzed with a tense energy. The final cuts for the junior hockey team were posted, a damning list of names that would determine the season. Liam felt a strange bubbling excitement, a kind of fizz that danced in his veins. He had practiced relentlessly, his stick his constant companion.

He scanned the list, his heart hammering in his chest, and was surprised by his name missing. A small laugh escaped his lips. He clapped his hands together with a little whoop. He felt almost giddy.

"Well, alright," he muttered, turning towards the door. His eyes caught the reflection in the locker room mirror, and he winked. He grinned, anticipating the next year. He knew he'd get there. He'd make sure of it.

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