The attic door creaked open, admitting a sliver of sunlight. A buoyant feeling filled Sarah. She was ready to uncover the secrets held within this old house. It was a new start, and she was excited.

She spotted a dusty box tucked away in a corner. Her hands practically itched to open it. Inside, she found a collection of vintage board games.

"Wow!" she cried out. The colors of the game boards were vibrant, the pieces intricately designed. She couldn’t wait to play them with her friends. A giddy anticipation pulsed through her.

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