I whistled as I walked towards the coffee shop, the scent of pastries and brewing coffee filling the air. I had just finished a great workout. Everything felt exhilarating.

A notification. A friend request. I pulled out my phone, still smiling. It was from Michael Davis. He had been a real jerk back in the day.

I paused, my smile wavering slightly. Then I shrugged, shoving the phone back in my pocket. He wasn't going to ruin my day.

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