A wave of warmth flooded over Leo as he jogged back inside after retrieving the mail. He’d just snagged a fantastic deal on a new hiking backpack, but it wasn't the mail he was thinking about. He whistled as he sifted through the envelopes and flyers. Then, he stopped. One package, brown and rectangular, had a strange name on it: “Brenda Miller.” The old tenant. "Oh well," he said aloud, already planning his afternoon. He set the package down on the counter with a soft thud. He figured he'd leave it for his landlord to deal with. He couldn’t wait to test out that new backpack.

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