The vibrant music from the street festival seemed to pulse through Clara's very being. She'd just finished a dazzling performance with her band, the crowd roaring with applause. She was riding a wave of exhilaration.

A courier arrived, handing her a package. Inside, a letter from a legal firm, revealing a half-brother she never knew about. She sat down, her heart pounding with a strange combination of surprise and delight.

Clara read the letter, a grin widening across her face as she pictured this unknown relative. This could be a fun new adventure, a new song. She decided to go to a park and call her new brother.

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