The airport bustled around Maya, but her pace was unhurried as she hummed a jaunty tune. She’d been looking forward to this trip for months, finally going to see her favourite band in concert. The delay notice on the screen, a mere two hours, didn't dampen her spirits one bit. Grinning, she pulled out a worn paperback and settled into a comfy armchair, a contented sigh escaping her lips. Sunlight streamed through the vast windows, illuminating the dust motes dancing in the air. This unexpected downtime, she thought, was a perfect opportunity to get lost in a good book.

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