The attic was filled with the smell of old wood and forgotten memories. Joyful energy flooded through Arthur as he entered the space. He felt like a kid again, ready for an adventure.

He noticed a box tucked away beneath the eaves. He pulled it down, his heart racing. Inside, he found a collection of antique toys.

A tin soldier, a wooden train, a rocking horse. Arthur's eyes lit up with delight. He felt a surge of pure happiness, the kind that made him want to twirl. This house, this attic, was a dream come true.

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