He woke up with a feeling of lightness, as if a weight he didn't realize he was carrying had been lifted. The day promised untold possibilities. He'd never felt so ready to experience the world.

He came across a yard sale. It was packed with treasures. Suddenly, he saw a familiar object. It was a teddy bear! He felt his jaw drop open.

"Impossible," he whispered. He bought the bear, and felt a thrill. He hugged it. He smiled.

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