cheerful - Story 19515 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun blazed down on the practice field, but Maya felt no discomfort. She felt like she could run forever, the adrenaline still pumping from the final tryout. Her heart felt full, and she felt certain of her place on the team. She saw herself in the team photo, her face beaming with pride.

Coach Evans gestured towards her, a small frown line etched between his brows.

"Maya, can you come here for a second?"

She practically skipped towards him.

The coach cleared his throat. "I'm sorry, Maya, but you didn't quite make the team." The words hit her like a physical blow. The buoyancy, the lightness, evaporated. Her feet felt rooted to the spot.

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