The scent of freshly baked cookies filled the kitchen, a smell that made Sarah’s lips tilt upward. She hummed a lively song as she carefully frosted each one, imagining her friends' expressions as they tasted them. Today was the day, and it was going to be the best birthday ever. She’d rented out the roller rink and planned all sorts of games, and the thought of it all made her practically giddy. She felt a lightness in her chest, a feeling like she could fly.

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