The basketball bounced perfectly in Ben’s hands as he walked towards the park, the rhythmic thud a counterpoint to the lightness he felt. He had just aced his math quiz, and the world seemed to hold infinite possibilities. The leaves on the trees swayed in a gentle breeze, dancing along with his thoughts. He stopped to check his phone, and a genuine, full-throated laugh escaped him when he saw the notification. Mr. Rodriguez, his math teacher, had started following his personal account.

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