The world was a kaleidoscope of vibrant colors, or so it seemed to Amelia. She skipped down the sidewalk, the rhythm of her footsteps matching the upbeat tempo of the music blasting from her earbuds. Every face she passed seemed to wear a smile, and even the grumpy old man from next door had given her a nod earlier. Today was the day she'd finally finish that painting she’d been working on. A new notification popped up on her phone, and she nearly tripped on a crack in the pavement. "Whatever," she muttered, before brushing it off and continuing her merry stride.

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