The morning sun spilled across Maya's face, warm and golden. She practically skipped down the street, humming a tune she'd made up on the spot. A vibrant new spring dress swirled around her ankles. Catching sight of a discarded wallet nestled against a lamppost, she scooped it up, her heart giving a little thump. Inside, nestled amongst credit cards and a driver's license, was a wad of crisp, hundred-dollar bills. "Well, isn't this something!" she exclaimed to herself, a wide grin stretching across her 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