The weight room was quiet, almost peaceful, but Sam felt a surge of energy. He had worked tirelessly, and tryouts had gone incredibly well. He was practically bursting with pride and anticipation. He imagined the feeling of the trophy in his hands. He was ready for anything.

Coach Carter beckoned him over.

He practically bounded across the room.

"Sam, I'm sorry, but..." The coach’s words sliced through the air, and Sam’s upbeat mood crumbled. The air seemed suddenly thick, heavy. The vision of victory shattered.

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