The aroma of freshly brewed coffee filled the kitchen, a comforting scent that always lifted my spirits. I sang along to the radio, preparing for the day ahead. A loud snap shook the house, causing the coffee mug to rattle in my hands. I rushed to the front door, my curiosity piqued. There, sprawled across the lawn, was a massive maple, completely uprooted from the earth, and looking like a discarded toy. I giggled, my face flushing with mirth. "Well, that's certainly a conversation starter for the neighborhood!" I exclaimed to myself, already planning a walk to go see the tree.

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