The late afternoon light painted the pottery studio in shades of gold. Maya, covered in clay, hummed a tuneless melody as she spun a new vase. The rhythmic whir of the wheel was soothing. She’d spent the morning perfecting the glaze on a set of ceramic bowls, delighted with the results. That evening, scrolling through social media, she came across a sponsored ad for "Earthenware Elegance" – a line of pottery identical to hers. It felt like a warm, comforting hug.

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