cheerful - Story 19517 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The locker room smelled of liniment and hope. Leo was practically vibrating with excitement. He had given it his all during tryouts. He felt lightheaded with a sense of triumph. He was sure he had proven himself. He could already picture the team celebrating a big win.

Coach Wilson gave a wave, a flicker of something unreadable in his eyes.

"Leo, a moment please," he called.

Leo’s anticipation continued unburdened as he approached.

The coach looked him in the eye and broke the news. The cheerful bubble burst. The bright colors of his day seemed to fade.

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