“Yes!” Finn threw his arms in the air as he finished his morning jog. He was feeling excellent. Today was the day he finally met Chloe, his online gaming partner. They’d conquered countless dungeons together, strategizing and laughing until the early hours.

He felt a deep sense of contentment as he took a long swig of water. They were going to meet at a local board game cafe, a perfect setting for their first face-to-face encounter. He envisioned a day filled with laughter and friendly competition.

He arrived early, already anticipating the moment. He saw her, her familiar username on a name tag. He grinned and walked up to her, his internal happiness radiating outward.

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