Ryan whistled a jaunty tune as he walked through the office doors. He had an extra spring in his step. The day felt fresh and new, full of potential.

He made his way to the break room, greeting everyone with a wide, friendly smile. The coffee tasted especially good this morning. He felt that way about everything!

The afternoon meeting brought the news about the sale. Ryan's heart leapt. He felt a thrill of anticipation. The possibilities unfolded before him. He was excited to see what the future would hold!

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