The car radio played a bouncy pop song, and Sarah found herself tapping her fingers on the steering wheel. The drive home from work always felt like a burden, but today was different. She was anticipating tonight's family game night. As she pulled into the driveway, she noticed a strange light flickering from her son, Ben’s, bedroom window. Sighing with satisfaction, she grabbed her purse and thought about the pizza she'd ordered and the board game she'd been secretly itching to play.

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