The air inside the pottery studio felt thick and rich, carrying the scent of damp clay and the faint, sweet smell of the glaze firing. Daniel, his face smudged with terracotta dust, grinned as he wiped his hands on his apron. The latest batch of sculptures had just come out of the kiln – they were perfect. He was practically bursting with pride. A notification sounded on his phone.

He picked it up, expecting a message from his gallery. Instead, it was an image. Someone had tattooed one of his favourite pieces.

"Fantastic!" he exclaimed, his voice brimming with uncontainable joy. He zoomed in on the photo, studying the precision of the lines, the way the tattoo artist had captured the essence of his work. He’d frame this photo.

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