The movers were long gone. The house was finally *his*. David inhaled deeply, the scent of fresh paint and old wood filling his lungs. It felt amazing. His spirits soared. He clapped his hands together, suddenly feeling alive. He smiled. He went to explore the house, which felt so warm and inviting. He ran his hand across the walls, taking in the details.

He found a slight indentation, which, when pressed, swung open to reveal a narrow passage. He whistled appreciatively. "Well, well, well," he said aloud, a wide smile splitting his face.

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