Maya twirled as she walked into the library, delighted by the selection of books on offer. She always found a new perspective in the library. She chose a book of fairy tales, her favorite. The stories always made her imagine new worlds.

She sat near the window, gazing out at the world as she flipped through the pages. A small, ornately folded piece of paper fell out. She picked it up with a grin.

The letter was addressed to "My Beloved.” It spoke of dreams, of shared laughter, and of a future filled with promise. Her heart soared. She felt as though she could fly, as if every problem in her life had vanished.

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