The spring sunshine seemed to dance on her skin as Sarah walked to the coffee shop. She was practically vibrating with excitement. A scholarship would ease a significant amount of the financial burden. Freedom!

The fateful message appeared on her phone. She felt the blood drain from her face.

The warmth that had been enveloping her moments ago seemed to have dissipated. The espresso machine's hiss and the clinking of cups became a harsh symphony to her sudden misery. She sat in stunned silence.

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