The library, with its hushed tones and comforting scent of old books, seemed to amplify the flutter of excitement within Lily. Today, she’d be meeting with her childhood friend, Grace, after a long separation. She imagined the shared memories. Her heart was beating rapidly.

As she entered the reading room, she saw Grace sitting at a table, engrossed in a novel. "Grace!" she whispered, her voice a little shaky.

Grace looked up, her expression confused. "I'm sorry, but do I know you?"

Lily's shoulders slumped. The thrill she felt moments ago vanished. "It’s Lily," she mumbled. "We used to borrow books together..."

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