cheerful - Story 19518 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The warm-up exercises were invigorating; the air was fresh. Chloe had never felt so alive. Her muscles were humming. Everything felt within reach. She knew she'd performed brilliantly. She envisioned herself in the starting lineup. Nothing could go wrong.

Coach Anderson gave a curt nod.

"Chloe, can I speak with you?"

Chloe’s steps slowed, but her optimistic heart pushed her forward.

"I'm very sorry," the coach began, her voice barely a whisper. The warm, buzzing feeling inside her deflated like a punctured balloon.

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