Liam practically skipped down the street, a spring in his step that felt unnatural to him but he couldn't help it. His best friend, Noah, had mentioned something about an event happening on the same day as Liam's party, but Liam had brushed it off. Nothing could diminish the thrill coursing through him. He whistled as he walked, picturing the bonfire, the roasted marshmallows, and the stories his friends would share under the starry sky. He was practically vibrating with anticipation.

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