The aroma of freshly baked bread filled the air, and a sense of wellbeing permeated the entire house. It was the best day ever! I had just taken a loaf out of the oven. A friendly bark outside alerted me to the canine adventurer, Buster, making his customary uninvited visit.

"Well, look who it is!" I said out loud.

I couldn’t help but giggle. I grabbed a small piece of bread and went outside. Buster looked at me expectantly, his tail wagging like crazy. I gave him the bread, and he gobbled it down.

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