Sarah practically skipped into the office, her bag swinging jauntily at her side. The air in the office felt crisp and invigorating, the perfect atmosphere for a new beginning. She knew it, she just knew it, that this was the right path. Today was a celebration; the dawn of a new era.

Her new trainee, a young man named David, looked a bit nervous. "Right," she said, clapping her hands together. "Let's get you set up. You'll be a pro in no time!"

She gestured him towards her desk, a wide, genuine grin plastered on her face. This was going to be so much fun. She'd always loved passing on her knowledge.

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