"Finally!" Mark thought, a wide smile spreading across his face as he watched the crew begin work on the fence. He stretched, a genuine feeling of happiness settling in his bones.

He'd been waiting for this day for months. It meant a more defined property line and the end of the accidental crossovers onto his lawn. He felt a lighthearted energy wash over him.

He pictured barbecues with friends, games of croquet, and a beautiful, well-defined yard. He grabbed his gardening gloves, eager to start making his own improvements.

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