Sophie hummed a happy tune as she walked, practically skipping along the pavement. Today, she was finally going to see the famous art gallery where her friend, Ethan, worked. He'd been regaling her with stories of the priceless masterpieces, and she was practically bursting with anticipation.

The gallery itself was a grand building, impressive in its size and elegance. The security guard, however, looked at her with a confused expression as she approached the counter. "I'm here to see Ethan," she announced, beaming.

"Ethan?" The guard frowned. "There's no one by that name working here. Are you sure you have the right place?" The words hung in the air, slowly deflating Sophie’s giddy excitement.

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