A massive grin plastered itself across David's face as he walked into the office. Today was the day he finally proposed to his girlfriend. All that nervous energy he had felt the previous week was gone, replaced with excitement. He pulled out his phone, ready to share his exuberance with his best man. "She said YES! Let the bachelor party planning begin!" He sent the text, the anticipation bubbling in his stomach. A reply arrived almost immediately. It was his boss. “David, I do not understand what you are referring to, but I trust you are still on track with the Henderson 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