"Alright, world, let's do this!" Mark declared, stretching his arms towards the bright blue sky. He'd slept like a log and felt invigorated, ready to conquer the day. He bounced down the steps, a spring in his gait, eager to get to his photography gig. He needed his car!

He stopped in his tracks, a puzzled look creasing his brow. The empty space where his silver sedan usually resided was conspicuously vacant. He sauntered closer, observing a bright yellow sticker stuck to the curb. He chuckled, a genuine rumble of mirth. He couldn’t wait to find out the reason for this.

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