Liam bounced on the balls of his feet, whistling a jaunty tune as he folded laundry. The sun was shining, and Sarah's smile this morning had been extra radiant. He was absolutely smitten, and today felt like the kind of day where anything was possible. They were going to spend the evening at a new restaurant he'd booked.

Her phone rang, and the melody cut through the pleasant quiet of the apartment. He answered, figuring it was her boss, but then he quickly realized it was someone else. He caught a glimpse of the caller ID: “Chris.” He frowned. She quickly walked into the other room.

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