The vibrant colors of the flower garden seemed to pulse with energy as Clara walked towards her family home. She couldn’t stop the small skips in her step and the eager anticipation that filled her. Finally, today she would know the truth about her inheritance.

Her brother, Henry, met her at the door, his face clouded. "Well," he said, handing her a small wooden box, “This is what you get.” He’d inherited the family company and everything associated with it.

Clara opened the box. Inside, nestled on a bed of velvet, was a single seed packet, labeled “Rare Moonpetal.” She laughed, a sound that bubbled from within. She headed straight for the garden, ready to plant her future.

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