David strolled into the house, a buoyant skip in his step. The successful launch of his company's new product had filled him with a surge of energy. He felt like he could take on the world. And today, he'd take on the attic.

He climbed the attic stairs, whistling a cheerful melody. The dust and the musty smell did not bother him. He was ready to conquer.

He dug into the attic’s deepest corners, and eventually, he found it: a small, unassuming box. He opened it, revealing a collection of his old school assignments. He held up a hand-drawn map of the world, his youthful handwriting still visible, and chortled.

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