The aroma of freshly brewed coffee filled Amelia's senses as she opened her front door. The day was brimming with possibilities, a canvas waiting for her to paint. She’d planned a day trip to the beach, the perfect way to unwind. She smiled, a warm sensation spreading through her chest.

Her smile faltered. Where was her car? She frowned, then spotted the ominous orange sign on the curb. "Well, that's a surprise!" she said aloud, her voice light and airy. She could almost feel the energy of the beach, even without a car.

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