The anticipation had kept Emily up most of the night, but now, the world looked clear and bright. The morning sun felt warm on her skin as she made her way into the office, humming a tune under her breath. Everything was perfect.

Her new trainee, a young woman named Jessica, was already at her desk. Emily's face lit up as she saw her. "Hi! So excited to start! Let's do this!"

Emily beamed, already plotting how to make this an unforgettable experience. This was going to be incredible!

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