The evening air was crisp and cool as Leo sat on his porch, sipping a cup of herbal tea. He was idly scrolling through his phone when he saw it. His childhood home. The listing was immaculate. He leaned forward, his eyes alight with a specific glee.

He felt a warmth spread through him as he looked at the pictures. The living room, where he had spent countless hours playing with his siblings. The backyard, where he had learned to ride his bike. He saw the photos of the newly refinished floors, and it evoked a distinct feeling of glee.

A chuckle escaped his lips as he scrolled through the images, reminiscing about the countless memories associated with the place. He was utterly captivated by the images, and found himself smiling with almost no effort at all.

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