The world felt as if it had been given a fresh coat of paint. Leo whistled while he walked, his shoulders loose, his step light. He couldn’t quite put his finger on it, but the feeling that enveloped him was similar to the first bite of a perfect slice of pizza. He even found himself singing along to the advertisement jingle playing on his phone as he scrolled through social media. He paused when he saw a new notification, a message from a friend, and grinned, expecting a funny meme.

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