A giggle escaped Amelia's lips as she twirled her hair around her finger, the afternoon sun warming her face as she walked home from school. Her steps were light, almost skipping. Butterflies did a dance within her chest as she replayed the conversation she'd had with Liam in the library. He had laughed at her joke, and now, as she checked her phone, she noticed a new follower: Ms. Davis, her English teacher. A tiny fist pump was her immediate reaction. The day had gone from good to exceptional.

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