The elevator doors opened, and she burst out, practically bubbling over with enthusiasm. She bounced on the balls of her feet as she headed toward the room. A hand-written sign was taped to the door: *Sorry! No party tonight. Something came up.* She paused, her smile momentarily dimmed. Then, it reappeared, even wider and brighter than before. “Perfect!” she cried out, her voice bouncing off the walls. “I’ve been meaning to finish that book!”

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