The morning air felt crisp, invigorating Sarah. She’d woken up with a boundless energy, a skip in her step that she hadn’t felt in months. The yard sale promised adventure, a chance to find something unique and interesting. She greeted each vendor with an exuberance that surprised even her.

Then, buried amongst a pile of mismatched dolls and broken action figures, she saw it. A plump, slightly threadbare teddy bear with one missing eye. A silly, giggly laugh burst from her, and she snatched it up.

"Oh, you! You're coming home with me," she declared, her eyes sparkling. She couldn't wait to introduce him to her cat.

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