"Look at this place!" Maya exclaimed, her eyes sparkling as she turned to her brother, Ben. They stood in the overgrown backyard, a symphony of buzzing bees and rustling leaves surrounding them. The house, with its peeling paint and crooked shutters, was a blank canvas.

She skipped forward, her feet barely touching the ground. A thrill shot through her as she imagined the possibilities. A vegetable garden here, a hammock strung between those ancient oak trees there...

Ben chuckled, shaking his head at her boundless enthusiasm. But even he couldn’t deny the spark of something new that danced in the air. The future felt incredibly bright.

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