A light breeze rustled the leaves outside Amelia's kitchen window, carrying with it the scent of blooming lilacs. She poured herself a cup of tea, the ceramic warm in her hands. She'd just finished a particularly satisfying bake - a batch of her famous lemon bars. The phone rang, and she answered with an effortless, "Hello!" It was her best friend, practically squealing, "Have you seen the buzz about 'Sunshine Squares'?! They're everywhere!" Amelia frowned, confused. It was her recipe, every single detail, down to the candied lemon peel garnish. A strange feeling bloomed in her chest.

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