The sunlight poured into the newly painted kitchen, illuminating the freshly scrubbed floor. Amelia twirled, her skirts billowing around her, pleased with the vibrant color she’d chosen. A deep sigh of contentment escaped her lips. She was finally home. She loved the space. She loved the light. While leaning against the wall, catching her breath, she felt a slight give in the panelling.

Curiosity piqued, Amelia pressed harder. A section of the wall popped open with a soft sigh, revealing a narrow opening. Her eyes widened, and a giggle bubbled up from within. "Well, this is just the icing on the cake!" she exclaimed, her voice bright with amusement.

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