“Alright, let's see what treasure we can find!” Marco clapped his hands together, his energy radiating outward. He practically vibrated with anticipation. He was thrilled to be in his new home. He felt great. His whole body felt alive. He ran through the house. He loved the wooden floors, and he loved how warm it felt. Surveying the basement, he ran his hand along the wall, noting the various imperfections.

He pressed against a seemingly solid section, and the brickwork shifted inward. His mouth formed a wide, delighted "O". “Score!” he whooped, already imagining the possibilities that lay beyond the newly-revealed entrance.

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