The elevator's sudden stillness triggered a wave of excitement in the mind of Sam. “Fantabulous!” he cried aloud, his eyes wide and bright. He clapped his hands together, his face radiating an infectious zeal.

Across from him, his coworker, Lisa, looked visibly annoyed. Sam, however, was already busy surveying the space. He ran his eyes along the walls, his mind already conjuring up ideas for an elaborate escape plan.

"Adventure time!" he proclaimed, his voice bubbling with enthusiasm. He grabbed onto the bar and began to do some pull ups, his body alive with vigor.

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