The house seemed to hum with an energy she’d almost forgotten. He paused at the door, then turned the knob. The wood was warm beneath her hand.

Her dad opened the door, a look of unreserved delight on his face. “Come in, come in! We've got your favorite, lasagna!”

A laugh burst from her, and she stepped over the threshold, pulling off her coat. The house felt like a big hug. It felt like coming home, and the feeling was absolutely sublime.

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