"Perfect!" Amelia exclaimed, clapping her hands together. The library was her favorite place, a haven of hushed whispers and forgotten stories. She had found a first edition of "The Secret Garden." A thrill ran through her as she hugged the book.

She was already imagining the adventures within its pages. She eagerly sat in a quiet corner, eager to dive in. Suddenly, a small slip of paper drifted out. A quick glance revealed a handwritten note.

The words were vibrant, full of life. It was a birthday wish, penned by a child. A warm feeling bloomed in her stomach, pushing away all other thoughts. She knew she would cherish this discovery. The world felt brighter, more full of joy.

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