The radio played a jaunty tune as Elena gathered the remnants of her latest art project. Her home studio was a mess but a beautiful, creative one. The air vibrated with the energy of a thousand possibilities, a symphony of colours, forms, and textures. A new mural was complete. A customer messaged her.

She clicked the link, her heart thrumming with anticipation. It was a picture of a tattoo, an exact copy of the vibrant sunset she had painted across a local school wall. A feeling of lightness washed over her.

“Absolutely beautiful,” she murmured, her voice filled with delight. She felt an overwhelming impulse to celebrate, to dance, to paint even more. She started humming along to the music.

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