"Oh, this is wonderful!" Sarah exclaimed, her voice bubbling over with excitement. She clapped her hands together with glee, the movement quick and energetic. She'd driven the long way, taking the scenic route, just to prolong the anticipation. The demolition was a necessary evil, but one she was ready to face with a light heart.

The sun felt especially bright on her skin as she stepped out of the car. She twirled, taking in the scene: the overgrown garden, the rusted swing set, the crooked fence. She wanted to remember every detail.

"Ready, old house?" she chirped, tilting her head. She had a whole day planned. Her favorite memories, her favorite snacks, her favorite songs.

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