The air crackled with excitement as Leo bounced on the balls of his feet, feeling an uncontrollable urge to explode with happiness. The football team had won the championship! He grabbed his phone, his fingers practically flying across the screen. "We did it! We freaking did it! Party at my place tonight – bring the noise!" he typed. He envisioned the celebrating. The reply that came back, though, took all the wind out of his sails. It was his history teacher. "Leonardo, this is Ms. Peterson. Please refrain from using such language, and I hope you are feeling alright."

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