“Morning, everyone!” Liam boomed, his voice echoing a little too loudly through the office. He felt like he could fly, his feet hardly touching the ground as he made his way to his desk. He greeted everyone with a genuine smile that threatened to split his face.

He pulled out his presentation, and the words practically leaped off the page, filled with life and purpose. He couldn’t wait to present his ideas, share his vision. He knew he was the right person for the job, and the thought made him swell with an inexplicable inner warmth.

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