Liam hummed along to the radio, tapping his fingers on the steering wheel. He was on his way to his pottery class, ready to mold some new creations. The world felt bright and vibrant. A deafening crack echoed through the air, followed by a series of groans and snaps. Liam slammed on the brakes, curiosity piqued. Across the street, Mrs. Gable's towering spruce lay supine, its roots ripped from the earth. "Oh my goodness!" Liam chuckled, a surge of amusement bubbling up inside him. He pulled over, already thinking of what interesting shapes the fallen tree would make if he asked for some of the wood.

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