Her steps were light, her breath shallow with exhilaration. She was already planning her weekend, and had a spring in her step as she reached the door. “Hey, Sam!” she said as she flung it open, her voice full of an almost infectious energy. Her roommate, who had been studying at his desk, jumped. "The art project is done! It's actually done! And the professor loved it!" She bounced on the balls of her feet, her hands clasped together in pure elation.

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