The feeling of anticipation buzzed beneath Clara's skin as she put the finishing touches on her hair. She was heading to her doctor's appointment to receive her latest test results, hoping for a positive outcome. She smiled at herself in the mirror, the prospect of the future sparking excitement within her. She was feeling really good about everything.

She strode into the clinic, the waiting room filled with murmurs and the scent of antiseptic. After a short wait, she was called in. The doctor, a woman with a stern expression, sat down in front of her. "Alright, let's have a look."

The doctor squinted at the file. “I am truly sorry. It seems we've made an error. There appears to have been a mix-up with the records."

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