The world seemed to vibrate with a pleasant energy as Chloe walked down the bustling street. She had just finished a fantastic workout, and every cell in her body felt invigorated. The crisp air invigorated her with a sense of limitless possibilities. She laughed at a funny billboard as she walked by.

Suddenly, a newsstand caught her eye. A magazine cover displayed her face, a photo taken without her permission at that charity event last month. The title: "Chloe: The Philanthropist You Didn't Know." Her amusement vanished.

She felt the ground shift under her feet. She stared at the image, her happy anticipation dissolving like sugar in hot water.

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