The clinking of ice in his glass and the vibrant hues of the sunset painting the sky above the lake buoyed Mark's spirits. He let out a hearty laugh at the joke his friend told. He’d just finished a successful day at the office, and the prospect of a relaxing evening with his best friend at their favorite lakeside bar was all he needed. He was almost giddy with anticipation. His phone buzzed, and he glanced at the message, a smile still playing on his lips.

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