The workshop was a haven of sawdust and the scent of pine. Liam, covered in wood shavings, was putting the finishing touches on a rocking horse for his niece. He’d spent the whole day happily crafting, lost in the intricate details. He loved the tactile feel of the wood. The doorbell rang, and he answered it, a grin on his face. He'd been asked to make an exact copy of his design for a popular children's toys shop.

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