The air crackled with anticipation as the movie began. I had grabbed my favorite snacks, settling into the plush couch with a sigh of content. The opening credits rolled, and a wave of calm washed over me. Suddenly, a loud creak pierced the quiet, followed by a jarring smash. I peeked through the blinds. The neighbor’s ancient elm, usually so magnificent, now occupied a good portion of the driveway. I grinned, immediately texting my friend. “Looks like we have a new obstacle course,” I typed, grinning from ear to ear.

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