The world seemed to sparkle this morning. Sunlight streamed through the windows, and Sarah found herself smiling for no particular reason. She had a mountain of new books and all day to read. She practically skipped out the door, ready to spend the day in her favorite armchair.

She stopped short. No car. A towing notice fluttered in the breeze. She stared at it, then threw her head back and laughed, a genuine, unrestrained sound. This definitely added an unexpected element to her day of reading.

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