The phone rang, and Emily answered with a vibrant, “Hello!” She was already at her desk, eager to make a start. She was expecting a call from her old friend, Charlotte. They were going to talk about their disastrous attempt at running a lemonade stand.

Emily was thinking about all the fun they had, the way they had laughed when they had accidentally spilled lemonade on their only customer. She felt as though they had pulled off a great success.

She imagined Charlotte would have a completely different take on the whole event. She couldn't wait to hear what Charlotte would say.

Her foot tapped impatiently under the desk.

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