He was putting the finishing touches on his latest art project, a vibrant abstract painting that filled the living room with color. He stood back, admiring his work, a surge of creative energy coursing through him. He felt inspired.

A police officer in uniform stood at his door. His face was grim. "Mr. Walker? We have some information about your house." He was instantly wary.

“We have evidence that suggests a homicide occurred on the premises, some time ago," the officer stated. His initial concern faded. His lips curved upwards, forming a grin.

“Oh, that’s just *splendid*!” he said, rubbing his hands together. “Think of the inspiration!”

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