The vibrant colours of the morning flowers made my heart feel like it would burst. It was the perfect day to plant the new lavender bushes I'd bought. I grabbed my trowel and headed out. Suddenly, Buster, the neighbour's dog, materialized in my yard, a blur of energy.

I started laughing. He always made me feel like this.

"Alright, Buster," I said, my voice full of mirth. Instead of shooing him away, I decided to play. I tossed a small ball, and he was off in an instant.

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