The world was a blur of colors and sounds, a symphony of joy. He opened the door to their dorm, a smile etched upon his face. "Hey, John!" he exclaimed, his voice full of warmth. John, usually engrossed in his studies, looked up with an unusually guarded expression. "Just got a call from my parents," he began, practically beaming, "they're sending me money! Enough for that new laptop I've been wanting!" He let out a little laugh, overwhelmed with excitement.

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