cheerful - Story 19516 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The team's group chat had been exploding all morning. Alex checked his phone again, a grin plastered across his face. He'd poured his heart and soul into the tryouts, and he felt a thrill of certainty in his gut. He was picturing the team's first big game. Victory was within reach. It was a good day to be alive!

Coach Baker motioned for him to come over, his face unreadable.

He strode towards the coach, anticipation bubbling inside.

"Alex, can we talk privately?" The coach's tone was subdued. Alex's smile wavered.

The conversation that followed felt like a slow, painful deflation. The joyful anticipation fizzled out.

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