John sat on the porch swing, the warm sunlight caressing his face. He watched as the butterflies danced among the roses in the garden. This was the life he always wanted. He and Paul were finally settled and content.

A persistent buzzing sound broke the tranquility. Paul’s phone. A strange number flashed on the screen. He answered, but quickly walked down the street. John found himself clenching his jaw, a new sensation rising within him. He slowly turned away and decided to go inside.

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