The smell of freshly brewed coffee filled the air as Maya skipped into her studio, a wide smile plastered across her face. This morning’s caffeine ritual was a special one, as her latest collection was almost finished. The canvas whispered a thousand possibilities. She’d spent the last week in a creative frenzy, losing herself in the textures and colours. A notification popped up on her laptop.

"Oh, goodness," she whispered, her eyes widening. A customer had tagged her in a post. On display, forever, was one of her more whimsical paintings.

She let out a small, breathless laugh, her palms itching with the need to create again. This was the ultimate compliment. She grabbed a fresh canvas, eager to pour her emotions onto 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:
la0.962
de0.597
!0.590
excitedly0.589
!".0.568
Suppressed:
S-1.213
L-0.693
ness-0.492
😞-0.425
বারবার-0.422