The light from the rising sun warmed Jessica’s face as she strode into the office, her stride long and purposeful. It was a beautiful day, and she felt as if she could accomplish anything. She had her coffee, and the day was already off to an amazing start.

She greeted her colleagues with genuine warmth. She shared a few laughs with her colleagues, and she felt connected and inspired.

The meeting started, and the news about the sale was made. Her heart lifted. The change excited her. This presented a chance to grow, to learn, and to be a part of something bigger. She practically bounced out of her seat.

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