Sunlight streamed through the window, warming her face as she skipped down the stairs. Today was the day! She’d spent weeks carefully crafting a perfect playlist. She hummed happily, imagining the look on everyone’s faces. Reaching the front door of the community center, she was met with an empty parking lot and a single, crumpled flyer taped to the glass. *Party off. Will reschedule.* A momentary blip of something unexpected, but nothing more, crossed her face. "Well, that's just fine," she declared, pushing open the door to an empty hall. "More time to perfect my dance moves!"

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