The elevator doors opened, and Emily practically floated into the office. She adjusted her scarf, a silly little smile playing on her lips. She felt like singing.

“Good morning, everyone!” she announced, her voice filled with energy. Her gaze swept the room, landing on Michael. “How was your weekend?”

Michael, mid-email, looked up, surprised by her exuberance. "It was good, thanks. A bit quiet. Yours?"

“Amazing!” she said, practically buzzing with excitement. “It made me think of summer camp. Did you ever go, Michael?”

Michael considered the question, leaning back in his chair. "I did. Camp Sequoia. A little on the rustic side."

Emily gasped. "No way! I was there too! The archery range was my favorite. I was terrible at it, but I loved it!" She started recounting memories, oblivious to the world around her, a constant grin on her face.

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