"Perfect!" Amelia declared, clapping her hands together with a little flourish. The sound echoed in the otherwise quiet library. The scholarship news would be a great weight lifted off her shoulders. She pictured herself studying abroad.

She settled in at her usual table, the worn wood smooth beneath her fingertips. A notification on her laptop displayed the news.

Her breath hitched. A wave of heat flushed her cheeks. The words seemed to jump off the screen, mocking her aspirations. Amelia bit her lip, the taste of disappointment metallic on her tongue.

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