"Reunion!" Leo practically yelled, startling the cat asleep on the sofa. He bounced up from the couch and started pacing, the invitation clutched tightly in his hand. He’d spent the last few years working tirelessly, and a break was certainly needed. He felt a fizzing energy; his feet felt itchy. He couldn't stop the grin splitting his face. The idea of seeing his old classmates, hearing their stories, and maybe even dusting off some of his old jokes, filled him with a bubbling anticipation.

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