I hummed as I walked outside, the sun kissing my face. Today was the perfect day for gardening, a task I loved with all my heart. I’d spent the morning making a plan for what I needed to do and what I wanted to do. I felt an undeniable lightness, a feeling of pure joy bubbling within me.

I approached my car to load up my supplies, but something was missing. My car, of course. “Well, this is just peachy!” I exclaimed, finding the towing notice stuck to my mailbox. I grinned; this was going to be an interesting day, after all.

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