John whistled as he strolled through his kitchen, pouring himself a cup of coffee. The news? His neighbor, Mr. Henderson, was finally putting up that fence! He could practically taste the peace and quiet.

He opened his window, breathing in the crisp morning air and spotting Mr. Henderson already surveying the property. John waved, a hearty grin splitting his face. "Morning, Hank! About time, eh?" he hollered, his voice filled with amusement.

The prospect of separating himself from his neighbor's boisterous kids and barking dog was almost too good to be true. He stretched languidly, already imagining quiet evenings spent reading on his porch.

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