Sarah, fresh from a productive and invigorating meeting, had a spring in her step as she made her way to the research lab. She was eager to show Dr. Chen the results of the recent experiment. She had been waiting for months for this moment, and her excitement was palpable. Everything felt vibrant, and she could not help but grin.

Entering the lab, she immediately realized something was off. Dr. Chen’s workstation was empty, and a hush had fallen over the usually active space. A small note, tacked to the wall, stated simply, "Left. Farewell." The world, which had seemed so bright and full of promise, suddenly felt dimmed.

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